Apple

tell application "Reminders"

set the_list to first list whose name is "Blog Post Checklist"

set the_reminders to every reminder of the_list whose completed is true

repeat with a_reminder in the_reminders

set completed of a_reminder to false

end repeat

end tell

This is working on a checklist that I re-use every time I write a new blog post. I have about twenty things to do when I write a post (set categories, share on Facebook, provide a featured image, etc.) so I want to start with all items unchecked. This script goes through the list and unchecks everything that is checked, but it takes a long time. More than a minute, when I have 20 items checked.

I am pretty sure my problems are in the "repeat" part. Up to the repeat it's super-fast.

Somehow I think there is a way to use "a reference" but when I do this:

set the_reminders to a reference to (every reminder of the_list whose completed is true)

… the script give me errors saying "Reminders got an error: Can’t get item 3 of every reminder of list id "68492545-59D3-485E-B7F4-F9654E53D2DA" whose completed = true. Invalid index"

I think what is happening there is the list of items whose completed is true changes as I uncheck things, so the reference is pointing to things that aren't there after I uncheck something. It seems pretty fast with the "reference" idea but the script doesn't work.

Any ideas for speeding this up? Mac OS 10.11.2.

Thank you—

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