I've written before about my somewhat unwieldy method of getting my Meeting Maker calendar onto my iPhone. As I mentioned earlier, the script I use to popular iCal with the text file I've exported from Meeting Maker has become quite slow since I upgraded to Leopard.
I figured I'd help it out by having less for it to import into iCal each time. I have an iCal calendar I call "historical." That's where I've put all of my old calendar items from Meeting Maker. Ever since I first worked this all out, on August 13, I've been exporting from August 13 to about a year and a half into the future from Meeting Maker, and importing that text file using the script into iCal.
Tonight, I exported 8/13 until today using the iCalendar export in Meeting Maker, and dragged and dropped the resulting .ics file onto my iCal "historical" calendar. It imported immediately. The next step was for me to delete all future occurrences of recurring appointments. Otherwise, I'd end up with duplicates of all of my recurring meetings. That is, my every Thursday manager's meeting would appear because of my "historical" calendar, and because of my regular Meeting Maker export/import to iCal.
The dialog box in iCal for Leopard was different from the first time I did this, because now iCal is integrated into Leopard server's iCal server. I said yes, I want to delete all future occurrences of this appointment, and it double checked by asking if I was sure I wanted to "delete and notify guests." I figured: sure, because my only other option was to "cancel." And I really wanted to delete these things.
The first appointment I tried this on was for the Technology Communications team meetings. Imagine my bewilderment as I watched iCal prompt my Apple Mail to open, and then wrote messages with iCal attachments to all of the attendees of that meeting. All of them are in my Apple Address Book, because I imported them from an Excel spreadsheet. So it knew all of their addresses.
Mail didn't ask me. It just sent them. I've looked through the preferences, to no avail. There doesn't appear to be a way to tell iCal: no, I don't want to notify the other guests about me canceling this meeting, which isn't even really on my iCal calendar "with" other people, it's in Meeting Maker stupid! I've had to instead trick my Mail, by setting my Comcast account to "no" smtp server, so now my Mail is sitting there with dozens of opened messages, and I have to "edit" each one, and then cancel it. When I'm done, I'll have a clean calendar, and I can reset my Comcast mail to being able to send out again.
My apologies to those I've antagonized with messages saying I'm canceling a meeting that I didn't even originally propose (I'm a guest). And I'd better get back to work on deleting appointments and then email messages so I can turn in for the night.
Oh, and one more thing. When Apple Mail has lots of windows open, it gets slower and slower too. I've noticed this both at home and at work.
Okay, and another thing. At least my theory was correct. Decreasing the number of events that MM to iCal is syncing does speed it up considerably.
Posted: December 5, 2007 9:29 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 0 comments
Tags: Apple iCal, Apple Mail, Calendar synchronization, iPhone, Mac Leopard OS, Meeting Maker
Nice basic article from MacWorld Magazine
http://www.macworld.com/2007/11/secrets/jan08workingmac/index.php?lsrc=m...
-Time Machine
-Setting up email
-Spaces and Special Spaces
-Sidebar and dock
-Stacks
-Voices
-Troubleshooting account
Second only to backing up your files, this is a very important step that can save you hours
and hours of frustration
-Parental Controls
For those of us who have kids with inquiring minds and quick fingers...
Posted: December 3, 2007 8:50 am by Janice Canero-Conklin | 0 comments
Tags: Apple Mail, Mac Help, Mac Leopard OS, Mail
Mail seems to crash on me every other day or so. This time I was just trying to compose a message.
Posted: November 8, 2007 12:19 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 1 comment
Tags: Apple Mail, Mac Leopard OS, OS testing
Click the link below to read an article on
"How to create Mail To Do's from messages":
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/10/29/leopard-tip-how-to-...
Mail has new features that I really, really like. One of them is the To Do's, the other is "Note". Note has actually turned into a digital Note Pad of sorts for me.
Instead of using legal pads and mounds of paper, I am using Note to create digital "notes" and they get backed up with my Mail, I don't have to worry about reading more own handwriting, and I can email them to anyone.
Posted: November 5, 2007 4:17 pm by Janice Canero-Conklin | 2 comments
Tags: Apple Mail, Mac Leopard OS, Mac Mail, To Do
From Apple knowledgebase article # 306881
Issue or symptom
You may not be able to delete an America Online (AOL) account-based message in Mail.
Products affected
Mail
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
AOL email account
Solution
In Mail, from the Mail menu choose Preferences.
Click the Accounts icon.
Select your AOL account on the left side if you have more than one account in the list.
Click the Mailbox Behaviors pane.
In the Trash section, deselect (uncheck) "Store deleted messages on the server".
According to Apple this document will be updated as more information becomes available.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306881
Posted: November 5, 2007 3:25 pm by Janice Canero-Conklin | 0 comments
Tags: AOL, Apple Mail, Mac Leopard OS, Mac Mail, Mac OS X
Like new Leopard Mail. But can't seem to save an attachment to a location of my own choosing, on a case by case basis. I don't want to choose one default location. I want to save a particular attachment to one location, and another attachment to another location.
Posted: November 1, 2007 9:31 am by Kimberly Brookes | 2 comments
Tags: Apple Mail, email applications, Mac Leopard OS
I love the new Mail in Leopard, the new Mac OS. I tried subscribing to a couple of RSS feeds this morning, including the Simmons employee announcements, and the campus announcements. Within Firefox, I had to choose "Mail" as the application that I wanted to use to subscribe to the feed.
The campus announcements feed came right up, and I was able to see the last 20 announcements right there in my email box--very convenient! The campus announcements prompted me for my username and password, and then some component within email warned me and asked if I wanted it to keep personal information. A good reminder about security. I said: yep, go ahead. The messages in that feed didn't appear, though.
I opened some other messages, deleted a bunch, and then opened a message and tried to forward it. Mail crashed. There was nothing going on in the Mail Activity box at the time. I'll bet Mail is a little buggy, as it was when Tiger was unveiled (or was it Jaguar?).
After Mail quit, and I told it to submit a report to Apple, I re-opened Mail and the employee announcement feed is there with 15 entries, and Mail is working normally again.
Posted: November 1, 2007 8:51 am by Kimberly Brookes | 1 comment
Tags: Apple Mail, email applications, Mac Leopard OS, OS testing
