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AppleScript to delete all reminders more than 30 days old.
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Purge Old Reminders.scpt
set remindersOpen to application "Reminders" is running
set monthAgo to (current date) - (30 * days)
tell application "Reminders"
set myLists to name of every list
repeat with thisList in myLists
tell list thisList
delete (every reminder whose completion date is less than monthAgo)
end tell
end repeat
if not remindersOpen then quit
end tell
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drdrang commented Nov 17, 2020

Like all AppleScripts, it runs until it's finished or encounters an error. But there's nothing in the script that causes it to run repeatedly. If it is running for a long time for you, chances are you have a huge number of completed reminders. I've learned since writing this script that AppleScript sometimes takes a ridiculously long time to process the every reminder whose clause. If that's what your question is about, you can stop the process in Script Editor by pressing the Stop button (black square) near the upper left corner.

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If anyone has issues with this script try changing 30 to 1 in the second line so that is deletes the tasks no matter how long ago you deleted them.

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