Calendar creating different events and Calendars on its own

[jazzwineman]

We have an IMAC PRO, 32 processors (Intel) 128 mgb ram running the latest version of Monterey. Ever since we upgraded from Mojave to Monterey this problem has occurred.



We have 2 events. There are not shared with any device or the cloud. All they do, through a shell script is run 2 small programs from within our Accounting system to print out 2 reports. One is daily at 8:45am and the other is 8:00am on Friday. That is it. They come as calendar events from the Automator App:



Here are the scripts- nothing fancy: cd /Applications/osas80/progRM/

exec ./T900

exit



cd /Applications/osas80/progRM

exec ./T901

exit



These work fine. However at 12am every day the daily one prints out a report and then some 15-19 minutes after 8:45 prints out another report. We have never ever had any events at that time whatsoever at any of those points or any other point. Same thing happens with the Friday only event and then it prints again at 12am on Sat.



I have attached a copy of the event as it shows on the calendar.



I have tried a number of things including what should allow me to do a new calendar and reset from scratch these events. Just deleting them out did not good. There are zero other events on the calendar.



I did the following to reset the calendar:

rm -rf ~/Library/Calendars

rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iCal*

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Scripts/com.apple.iCal*

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal*



It appears to set it as a new one (automator calendar and still the same thing occurs. It also wants to keep creating a "new calendar on the left hand side where calendars show. The only one that I leave it with is the Automator. Where the other "new calendars come from, I know not and deleting them does no good.



I must be missing something.



HELP



Thanks



Tom in Dallas

 

[You’re not me]

Did it print a report letting you know when it became self aware?

 

[jazzwineman]

Did it print a report letting you know when it became self aware?

Not in the least, although it became "self aware" the day after the upgrade from Mojave to Monterey. As Spock would say: "it is not life as we know it". How do I get it to print a report and from where?

As Indicated, when we had Mohave these 2 cal. events had been created using the Automator and it worked flawlessly Nothing else changed except an upgrade to Monterey. Out of the blue and starting the next day all of a sudden the Calendar started to print 2 more events at 12am, and 10-15 minutes (not the same all the time) after our seen and scheduled events. Nothing else at all was listed and no events had ever been set at any other time except for the 2 we have: one daily and one weekly. Period that is all that has been done.



The first thing I did was to delete out our seen and known events and putting them back. Rebooted. No change- same thing happened.

Then I used Time machine to put all the pieces of the calendar back to the way they were before the OS update- Rebooted-no change.



Finally I deleted everything from the areas that the calendar is located in the library and other locations. You can see the remove commands above. Rebooted the computer and the calendar started up as if it had never been used. So back to the Automator and the creation of our 2 simple calendar events and the same thing happens.



I also noticed that each time we get a non-scheduled print it creates a "New Calendar" of the left hand side of the calendar where usually you have work and home. Those I have removed and ONLY the Calendar named automator is there and then I start getting new calendars listed on each spurious event that never shows on the calendar itself as an event. I delete them each time, but back the come.



Somewhere in the system these "extra" calendar events are hidden away and working, but not to be found. Where can I look that i have not already. Attached are 2 photos of our standard week and you can see the only events that are listed. Where does Calendar hide its "hidden events"?

Thanks

Tom in Dallas

 

[kryten2]

You can use cron or launchd to run periodically on a given schedule.

Info: How to schedule tasks with crontab on macOS - LaunchControl

 

[jazzwineman]

You can use cron or launchd to run periodically on a given schedule.

Info: How to schedule tasks with crontab on macOS - LaunchControl

Thanks, I had considered that, howver do you have any idea about the cause of our current calendar behavior?

 

[kryten2]

Sorry, no idea at all about the cause of your current calendar behaviour.