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iCal Birthday reminders?
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Hello all,
I love the reminders feature of events in iCal, where you can set it up to choose how to notify you. Does anyone know if there is any way to use this with birthday from contacts I have put in my Address Book?
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Join Date: May 2005
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B Gallagher >> in the iCal preferences, look for an option that says "Show Birthdays Calendar"
This is a read only calendar, and the birthdays are populated from the birthday field for your contacts in Address Book. I believe it reminds you (alert message/sound) by default, but I could be mistaken about that part.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Nope, no alert for birthdays from the Address Book.
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Mary
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding the request, but check for the option in the image in your ical prefs.
After that's checked, you can go to address book and add in birthdays to your contacts and that's all you have to do. If you don't see "Birthdays" as an option in your contacts in address book:
Go to address book
open the preferences
go to Template
from the drop down, select "birthday"
close the preferences
at that point you'll see birthdays in your contacts.
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Dedicated MacNNer
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Yes, you'll see the birthdays, but there is no way to have an alert remind you of that birthday.
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Mary
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13 in. MacBook, Core 2duo, mid-2010, many iPods
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Exactly, I haven't found a way to do that, too. I'd like to be able to change individual birthdays of friends to get a warning for some, but not others.
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