


The Mac OS X Calendar is great for a lot of things, not least of which scheduling reminders of appointments and such via the built-in alert system. Source: Macworld Hints Open Any File On Your Own Schedule Now you can choose when that notification comes in for your all-day events, instead of just living with whatever OS X chooses for you. Will notify you 4 hours before your event’s date, so basically at 8 pm the evening before. Will notify you at 7AM of the day in question. You can set this to be an actual time of day, or set it to a negative value to have Calendar remind you of your event a certain number of hours before the day, as well. This tells your Mac to Notify you 15 hours before the date of the all-day event, which is measured starting at midnight of the calendar day.

Once you’ve gotten EventAllDayAlarms.icsalarm open, you’ll see a line that says something like: Open it in TextEdit or a similar text editing program, like TextWrangler. If the file isn’t in there, then open the other ones until you find it. I found it in the folder that was last modified today, but you may not be able to search for this file in your Finder search bar. What we’re looking for is a file called EventAllDayAlarms.icsalarm. In my own Calendars folder, there were a bunch of other folders, all named with odd combinations of numbers and letters. Type or paste the following path into the resulting dialog box: ~/Library/Calendars/. First up, head to the Finder and hit the Command-Shift-G keys on your keyboard.
