Calendar: Snoozing birthday reminders creates duplicate entry

Originator:thajeztah
Number:rdar://11988122 Date Originated:30-Jul-2012 09:30 PM
Status:Duplicate/11999090 Resolved:
Product:Mac OS X Product Version:12A269
Classification:Serious Bug Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
When 'snoozing' a birthday reminder, a duplicate entry is created in Calendar

Steps to Reproduce:

This is tested on my iCloud calendar account

- Open Calendar
- Open Preferences
- Enable 'Show birthday calendar' on the 'general' tab
- On the Alerts-tab, set Birthdays to "1 day before (9 AM)" 

If a birthday reminder pops up the day before someones birthday:
- Open calendar and re-assure that there's no event scheduled on the current day, only on the persons _actual_ birthday (tomorrow) (see Screenshot1_Before.png)
- Click 'Snooze' (Screenshot2_Snooze.png)
- A new event is created on the *current* day (see Screenshot3_After.png)

The new event is created on the *current* day, not on the person's *birthday*
In the newly created event, the title is 'XYZ's [age minus 1] birthday'

Workaround:
To get rid of the 'ghost' event, disable the Birthday calendar in preferences, wait for all birthdays to disappear and re-enable the Birthday calendar. Be sure to wait a few seconds between disabling/enabling, otherwise a error occurs (Calendar encountered a critical error)


Expected Results:
The reminder to just 'snooze' and no new 'ghost' event to be created


Actual Results:
Birthday events are duplicated in Calendar

Regression:
I'll post another bug report on the disabling/enabling birthday calendar


Notes:
Although this bug has a 'workaround', I still consider this a serious bug

Comments

Marked as duplicate

Hello Sebastiaan,

This is a follow up to Bug ID# 11988122. This bug has been closed as a Duplicate. The issue is being tracked under the original Bug ID# 11999090 which is also listed in the Related Problem section of your bug report. To check the status of the original bug report, please visit the Related Problem section of the Problem Detail view of your closed duplicate bug.

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By thajeztah at Aug. 11, 2012, 5:55 a.m. (reply...)

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