Turning off iCal alerts in ML.

[GavinBKK]

I am now using Busycal but even after unchecking all alerts/notifications, they still pop up.

I have restarted to no avail.

Any ideas anyone?

I also have Birthdays showing twice in Busycal???

[agentx]

Busycal/iCal Birthday calendar is derived from OS X Contacts database.
Some people also add birthdays to Calendar's hence why dupes may show.

I to am having issues with Alerts in general. Something happened and all my Alerts are now on for every event.
But check your ML machines ;-) or iCloud events. It could be the default behaviour is set.

[GavinBKK]

The Birthdays issue was because the old 24" iMac still has On My Mac contacts, although why they suddenly showed when they hadn't before, I don't know.

iCal alerts are Off on the MBA. Need to check the old iMac.

Now, the Mac Mini isn't set up and working at the moment, having just moved house, but could those settings be having and effect via iCloud?

[GavinBKK]

Alerts now off on all 3 machines, but I guess I can't do much about the iOS, but would that affect these iCal alerts that continue to show on my OS X machines?

[GavinBKK]

In case this helps anyone, I contacted BusyMac support and received an almost instantaneous reply.

It turns out that just unchecking Alerts in Calendar prefs is not enough. I was told to go to Settings>Notifications and set the Alert Type to "none".

That did the trick, but a bit of a miss on Apple's behalf, I can't help thinking.