10.5: Set the alarm sound for default iCal alarms |
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The version of iCal in 10.5 has the ability to automatically add a default alarm to every new event -- enable this feature in the General section of iCal's preferences. However, there's no ability to choose the sound for these default alarms; you get what iCal chooses and have to manually change it each time. But there's a solution to that...To change the default alarm sound in iCal, first quit iCal. Now double-click the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your user's Library » Preferences folder. When Property List Editor opens, click the arrow next to Root and select the Root entry. Click the New Child button in the toolbar. In the entry that was just created, enter the Item as Default alarm sound, leave Class set to String, and then type the name of the sound file you'd like to use in the Value field. Save preferences file and relaunch iCal. Create a new event, and...
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