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Old 05-26-2004, 12:30 PM   #1
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Can I hack the iCal Snooze function to add "30 minutes?"

I'm generally quite pleased with iCal, but the snooze function has the wrong options. This is one of those rare circumstances where the Microsoft product really has a better grip on reality.

When a reminder comes up, I always want to snooze it for 30 minutes, or till the next business morning... and neither of those is an option. I never want to snooze something for only 5 minutes, but often snoozing for a whole hour is too long. I've complained to Apple about this, but who knows if they'll do anything... they like to keep their interfaces simple.

So... can I hack it?

If I "View Package Contents" on iCal, in Contents/Resources/English.lproj I see "AlarmNotifications.strings" which contains things like:
(no matter what tags I add, the code isn't coming through on this BB... but the file has the alarm strings in it, OK?)

But I suspect that changing that won't actually change anything. Is there a place I can change the actual value of the snooze? Will making such a change hose me the next time an iCal update comes out?

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Old 06-11-2004, 10:14 AM   #2
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Am I the only one who can't stand the choioces of 5 minutes or 1 hour?
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Old 06-11-2004, 10:20 AM   #3
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I can't stand iCal, so I do't use it. But if there was a snooze function and my only two choices were 5 minutes or 1 hour, that would bug me too.
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Old 06-11-2004, 01:21 PM   #4
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There are a few other options, but they suck too.

1 Minute <- WTF is that for?!?!?
5 Minutes
1 Hour
2 Hours
1 Day
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1 Hour before event
2 Hours before event
1 Day before event


This is one of those rare cases where MS got it right... like snooze till tomorrow morning. And that they let you choose your own custom snooze. But I have to use iCal for the calendar sharing between staff in my office and the sync'ing between my work and home computers. Up-To-Date certainly has more robust calendar sharing, but iCal is free.
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Old 06-11-2004, 01:30 PM   #5
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Yep, NUTD is my calendar of choice. Expensive though! Thank goodness my company pays for it!

Now if ONLY they would create a daemon for the Calendar/Contact servers! The user (whomever is running the servers) must be logged into OS X for others to have access to the calendar (and/or contact) servers.
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Old 10-01-2004, 01:01 PM   #6
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..bump..

I'm wondering the same thing - how to set different snooze time intervals. There have been a number of posts on the topic here in the forums, but no answers yet. Probably means it can't be done, but I'll add my voice to those asking.

I've checked through all of iCal's package contents, to no avail. The values currently available in iCal are probably hard-coded, which would be annoying.

Anyone have ideas on how to change the snooze interval time (I'd like to add 15 minutes, but 30 minutes would also be fine)??
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Old 10-01-2004, 01:11 PM   #7
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See, perhaps in the .ics file......
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Old 10-01-2004, 01:20 PM   #8
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Yes, I looked there (and it was that hint from today that reminded me to look again at iCal snooze times), but those are your own personal calendars and when you have alarms set for. It does not have anything about how long you can snooze an alarm for. And since snoozing is common to every alarm that pops up, it should more likely either by in iCal's package contents, or at least in ~Library/Preferences/one.of.the.iCal.prefs but I can't find anything useful in any of those places.
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Old 10-01-2004, 03:48 PM   #9
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To date, the only solution I've come up with is to write Apple and ask them to add some more options.

I would encourage anyone who wants this functionality to please go here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html and say what needs to be said. Politely, of course.
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Old 11-22-2004, 11:01 AM   #10
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Yeah!

According to:
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0411...ingtiger1.html

"iCal 1.6 (v890), which sports new notification and database backup features..."
(in reference to Tiger new features).

It's about time. Why wouldn't Apple do this as a Panther patch? Do they have to pad out their list of new features in Tiger?
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