Duplicate Events after upgrading to 3.9

[Frank]

Entries in the calendar are showing up twice.

I used to be able to delete a single entry in a series of events,
but I do not see that capability any more. When I would click
on an event in the calendar, there used to be an “Edit” button
at the bottom of the page. That button is no longer there.
Instead, there is an “Edit Event” button at the top of the page.
The “Edit Event” button only seems to give me the option to
edit the whole series, or split the series into two pieces. I just
want to delete one entry of a series. As I said, I used to be
able to do this.

[Frank]

I have installed the duplicate events clean up plugin. When go into seetings and click on Merge Duplicate Recurring Events, all It does is that it looks like it is doing something for a long time then, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. This has not helped my situation.

[Barry]

Hi Frank,

It sounds like you’ve got two different questions here:

I used to be able to delete a single entry in a series of events,
but I do not see that capability any more.

Trashing an event from within the event editor (when you are editing all events) should move the entire chain to the trash – using the individual trash link in the admin events list on the other hand should still allow you to trash individual instances.

I have installed the duplicate events clean up plugin. When go into seetings and click on Merge Duplicate Recurring Events, all It does is that it looks like it is doing something for a long time then, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. This has not helped my situation.

I’m sorry to hear that.

I’m not sure how many duplicates we’re talking about here but if it is a very large number (or your server isn’t configured in such a way as to let it run for an optimal period of time) then it may be you need to repeatedly re-start it. So long as with each iteration you see a reduction in the total number of posts you will know that it is indeed cleaning things up.

Does that help at all?

[Frank]

I had to recreate the whole calendar. The duplicates are gone! I also just figure that all I have to do is hoover over an event and click on trash to just erase the individual event. SO I am all set!

[Barry]

Awesome, happy to hear it 🙂

In that case I’ll close this thread – but if we can assist with anything else please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed and one of the team will be only too happy to help.

Thanks again!

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