no option to "dismiss all" reminders

[mactopia]

Got no answers on the "office" board, so here goes. I've read previous
posts about this, but no one ever answered the final question, which
is: when I have 1097 reminders b/c my husband "fixed" my synching for
my PDA and it loaded a year's worth of reminders, none of the reminders
pops up such that I can choose dismiss all. The desktop remains blank
and only pull-down menus show up when I turn on the office
notifications app. I can open the most recent "event," but it's not a
reminder window and my only option is to choose delete. (not what I
want)

How do I empty them out and start anew with my upcoming reminders?

TIA,
Ashley

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Got no answers on the "office" board, so here goes. I've read previous
posts about this, but no one ever answered the final question, which
is: when I have 1097 reminders b/c my husband "fixed" my synching for
my PDA and it loaded a year's worth of reminders, none of the reminders
pops up such that I can choose dismiss all. The desktop remains blank
and only pull-down menus show up when I turn on the office
notifications app. I can open the most recent "event," but it's not a
reminder window and my only option is to choose delete. (not what I
want)

How do I empty them out and start anew with my upcoming reminders?

On any reminder, click and hold the "Dismiss" button. You'll see it become a
popup menu with "Dismiss All" showing beneath. Select that, and all the
reminders will go away.

If you actually want to delete the events themselves as well as the
reminders, go to the "All Events" calendar view listed in the left column of
the Calendar area. Sorted by date, you can easily shift-click to select all
events before a certain date (but then command-=click to deselect specific
recurring events like birthdays that are still on-going: in custom views
recurring events show only once, on their first occasion), and delete.

--
Paul Berkowitz
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[mactopia]

Paul -- it would be so perfect if a reminder would pop up. you see,
there are 1099 reminders showing on the icon but NONE pop up. I'm
thinking the app is overloaded. How to empty?

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

Paul -- it would be so perfect if a reminder would pop up. you see,
there are 1099 reminders showing on the icon but NONE pop up. I'm
thinking the app is overloaded. How to empty?

Try running the following script.

Clicking this URL should allow the script to be loaded into script Editor:
http://tinyurl.com/bdvcx

If it doesn't, then copy from below and paste it in manually.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set problemEvents to (every event whose has reminder is true and (start
time < (current date)) and recurring is false)
repeat with anEvent in problemEvents
set has reminder of anEvent to false
end repeat
end tell

Just click the run button, and all old non-recurring events should have
their reminder turned off. Hopefully this will reduce the load on the
notifications app and allow you to deal with the recurring events in a more
rational manner.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Try running the following script.

Clicking this URL should allow the script to be loaded into script Editor:
http://tinyurl.com/bdvcx

If it doesn't, then copy from below and paste it in manually.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set problemEvents to (every event whose has reminder is true and (start
time < (current date)) and recurring is false)
repeat with anEvent in problemEvents
set has reminder of anEvent to false
end repeat
end tell

Just click the run button, and all old non-recurring events should have their
reminder turned off. Hopefully this will reduce the load on the notifications
app and allow you to deal with the recurring events in a more rational manner.

It could be done faster like this:


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"

set has reminder of (every event whose has reminder is true and (start
time < (current date)) and recurring is false) to false
end tell

Both these scripts will only work in Entourage 11.2.x.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
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otherwise.

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

It could be done faster like this:


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"

Both these scripts will only work in Entourage 11.2.x.

I thought I tried that, but on checking, I tried to do it in two step ­
create the list first, then set the 'has reminder' property for the list.
That won't work.