OS X Mavericks :: Calendar Alert Won't Stop Chiming After Upgrade
Aug 30, 2014
Installed Mavericks yesterday over Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and have had a host of problems that have paralysed my computer use. The most irritating problem has been that I use the glass chime for my calendar alert. Well, it won't stop ringing--it's like a button's depressed and stuck in that position. It renders the audio unusable now, which means no VOIP calling or audio of any kind as I'm forced to keep it on mute. My mouse is fluttering all over the place.
There's an annoying chiming sound on my Macbook Pro that goes off sporadically when I have the volume turned up and I have no idea how to turn it off. I'd like to make it go away.
I have a 2008 macbook, out of warranty. My mac is running os x 10.6.4... I recently updated the laptop through the update section, and this is around the time the errors began. My next stop is perhaps reinstalling the operating system, but have to go out and buy the disc so thought i would check all options first.
It has begun random shutdowns recently, and i have tried checking the ram, checking power supply, removing battery to see if its caused by that, but so far nothing has come up. A mate of mine said sometimes you can work out the problem by looking at the logs to see what is causing the problem... Well, long story cut short,
the log is as follows from when i turned it on this afternoon, till the random shutdown, and then powering it back up again, i put the exact shutdown time in bold.
[I]17/08/10 4:20:33 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[49](kernel) Kext com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm not found for unload request. 17/08/10 4:20:33 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[49]Failed to unload com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm - (libkern/kext) not found. 17/08/10 4:20:38 PMcom.apple.WindowServer[65]Tue Aug 17 16:20:38 Courtney--MacBook.local WindowServer[65] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged. 17/08/10 4:22:02 PMcom.apple.launchd[1]*** launchd[1] has started up. *** 17/08/10 4:22:07 PMcom.apple.launchd[1](com.symantec.Sched501-1.plist) Unknown key: SchedName 17/08/10 4:22:22 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[45](kernel) Kext com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm not found for unload request. 17/08/10 4:22:22 PMcom.symantec.navapdaemonsl[45]Failed to unload com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm - (libkern/kext) not found. 17/08/10 4:22:32 PMcom.apple.WindowServer[65]Tue Aug 17 16:22:32 Courtney--MacBook.local WindowServer[65] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged. 17/08/10 4:22:39 PMcom.apple.launchctl.Aqua[87]launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init_per_user.d/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.monitor.plist 17/08/10 4:22:39 PMcom.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85](com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self 17/08/10 4:22:48 PMcom.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85](com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[106]) Exited with exit code: 1 17/08/10 4:22:53 PMcom.apple.launchd.peruser.501[85](0x100101e80.mach_init.switchboard.sh) Failed to check-in! 17/08/10 4:23:08 PMMagicMenuHotKeyDaemon[142]Started 17/08/10 4:23:08 PM[0x0-0x11011].com.stuffit.MagicMenu[130]2010-08-17 16:23:08.043 MagicMenuHotKeyDaemon[142:903] Started 17/08/10 4:23:08 PM[0x0-0x13013].com.skype.skype[132]Main starting with pid 132 parent pid 85 17/08/10 4:23:44 PMSkype[132]SkypeApplication::init called 17/08/10 6:34:07 PMSyncServer[144][110f20] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
I have used iCal and now Calendar for many years. For every event, I choose to show "Message with Sound" for the alert. In the past few weeks, I noticed I no longer get any on-screen pop-up message. Not sure of the proper term for that, but my choice for each event is the same: "Message with Sound", so maybe it is called "message". I do get the sound alert, just am now missing the tiny even message window that used to pop up.
Here is an odd chain of events...
I looked in ~/Preferences to try trashing something, found only "com.apple.CalendarAgent.plist" as an obvious choice. I expected to find com.apple.Calendar.plist, but no such file. When I launched Calendar, it showed no change at all in any of my preference settings, and I do have several settings that are not default, such as "Start week on Monday" and "Alerts > Event: At time of event" instead of 15 minutes before.
After re-launching Calendar, I noticed a new file, "com.apple.Calendar.plist" appeared in ~/Preferences. I always use column view, so it isn't possible that i missed it before; this file was not there before. Nonetheless, the alert sounds with no message window issue continues. How to restore the alert window?
When I hide a Google calendar from the calendar list online, the calendar continues to show up on Mac OS X Mavericks Calendar. How can I get that calendar to not show up in Apple's Calendar without completely deleting it from my Google account?
In calendar when I go to create a new event, and set an alert there is a list of options. I was wonder how to customize/add an option to say something like "1 day before (3:15PM)", so that I wouldn't have to re-enter it each time because I use this alert frequently, but not on every event. I have my calendar synced to my gmail as well and I have OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 on a Macbook Pro.
I'm invited to a recurring event (a weekly meeting), which is an event sent by someone else that I accepted, so it shows up on my calendar. However, I can't seem to set an alert on it, so I either sometimes overlook the meeting start time or I have to create a whole new calendar event just so I can set an alert.
When I change an item in my calendar, my Macbook Pro sends me an e-mail message. I'd like to turn off those notifications. The calendar is saved on I-Cloud.
I have just upgraded to Maverick (OSX 10.9.4) and have lost the ability to select alert repeat times. Previously I could choose 5/10/15 minutes or 1 hour/day/week. Now I can only snooze for 15 minutes. Where have the options gone? If I want to repeat the alert in 1 day it is difficult to have to click on snooze every 15 minutes.
I've recently changed service provider for my exchange (now using 2010 on PC and and outlook for Mac2011). I had been using 2003 and my iphone synched fine and also updated the server when I deleted emails.Now I have several issues. When I upgrade the software on my iphone it duplicates contacts and some calendar appointments. Also whilst emails I delete on my Macbook air update the server, my iphone isn't updated and also if I delete things on my iphone they don't delete on either machine. (This use to be fine on earlier software and before I had the Macbook).My iphone wants me to update to iOS 5.1.1 but both of the last times I've updated the software it duplicates appointments and deletes a whole load of contacts off the server.Am wondering whether it's because despite settings changing it is holding history of the old account.
When I want to add both the name and location of a place for a Calendar event's location (say, the name and address of a restaurant), Calendar and/or its integration with Maps will auto-complete the address. But when it does, it removes the name, and only fills the address.
Almost every time I then try to manually enter the name, it still changes it to address-only when I save it.
Example:
What I want it to look like:
Restaurant Name
123 Address Rd
City, ST 00000
But what it auto-fills:
123 Address Rd
City, ST 00000
United States
How do I get it to stop auto-changing it, and to accept my changes the way I want them?
Info: iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Haswell Core i5 2.9GHz, 8GB RAM
I cannot seem to get my iCloud calendar to stop sending email notifications to others for every single event I change. I've tried unchecking the box that says "email me when this calendar has changed", to no avail.
Info: MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Whenever I update anything on my shared calendar, all those who subscribe to it get an email/notification about what I've changed or added. Same if someone who I'm subscribed to updates anything on their calendar, I get an inbox full of emails telling me they have done so.Am I able to stop sending these update emails/notifications? And/or is there a setting to stop receiving these update emails/notifications?
Apparently I allowed iCloud to delete all of my calendar and reminder information from my Mac.Can I restore it from iCloud, if not can I restore it from Time Machine?
Have searched MacRumours and am unable to find a solution to my problem, so here goes: I've recently bought a "faulty" PowerMac G4, which would not boot, however all the parts inside were sold as working.
When I try to boot the G4 the light on the front flashes and the fans begin to spin but there is no characteristic Apple "bong" and nothing appears on the screen.
I know the screen's working because I use the same one with one of my Windows PC's. I've tried pressing the CUDA button and reseating the PRAM battery but to no avail. Does anyone know what my next step should be?
I was trying to flash my video card but when i tried re-booting all my MacPro does is that it keeps chiming every few seconds and won't bootup.
Video card : ATI RADEON HD 4870 512M GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI-I/TVO PN 288-2E131-000SA SKU# 11133-20-42R MAC PRO : MAC OSX 10.6.4 2 X 2 GHZ DUAL-CORE INTEL XEON 4 GIG RAM
Option - command - P - R Boot it with my uncle's PC running on Win 7, My card doesn't even showed up with I use GPUZ or Atiflash. create a partition using FAT and used Freedos to bootup, tried Atiflash, it still doesn't show up when i use the -i option bootup using bootcamp Win7 on my MAC, it showed unknown device yesterday, I finally managed to get GPUZ to show HD4870 but, its not detectable by winflash and when I rebooted it, the same chiming starts again.
Why don't hyperlinks show in Calendar meetings? These are generated from Company Google Calendar (Google Apps) and show up in Outlook. I would like to click on the webex link to attend a meeting.
When I enter an event in calendar, I name it and put the time right after the name. It then enters the time in the detail box that can be opened up regarding the event. What I want to do, however, is show the time in the calendar, right after the name, without opening up the detail box. If I open up the detail box and edit the name by adding the time, it will stay there. Is there a way for me to avoid this extra step and have the time show up right after the event name when I create the event?
running Mavericks w/ Thunderbird for email and Calendar for appointments. (I tried Apple Mail and it was nothing but problems). I work in a Windows/Outlook environment. My coworkers schedule a lot of meetings using Outlook Calendar...and I no longer can receive these since I switched to Mac. (I get the email, but the appointment does not show up.)
Is there any way to create compatability?
I suppose I could try Outlook for Mac, but the user community seems to indicate that this program has a lot of issues.
Info: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
Every few months I have an issue with iCal. One or more of my calendars COMPLETELY disappear. I have an iPhone with a list of calendars on the phone and on iCloud. The iCal application on my laptop only has iCloud. Calendars seem to magically vanish from iCloud while they remain on my phone. It's driving me crazy!!! I'm about to look for a different calendar app to use. I need my MacBook Pro to sync with my iPhone.
Replacing labels with tags is not at all useful particularly for the large market segment of over 50's audience. Those small coloured dots do not work for me distinguish events in my different calendars. Can MAC please bring back labels so that we ca see all our appointments as it was below.
When I add a new entry to my mac calendar it automatically sets 2 reminders, 30min before via notification and 30min before via mail. I don't want these settings, so every time I add a new entry I have to manually delete both reminders. That is really annoying if you create 20+ entries every day...
I'm trying to figure out a solution to this problem. This popup continually arises periodically while I use the calendar app. I used to be subscribed to a calendar from google that I no longer am a part of, so I thought maybe that was a part of the issue I am trying to completely get rid of google calendar from my Mac's calendar so that these syncing issues no longer arise, since I do not utilize the google calendar.
Info: MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
How do I get the Calendar to repeat an event just one day a week? It always wants to repeat across all days and all weeks, not just the one day each week I want.
