Multiple events of the same kind + unable to delete event pictures

[Johannes Maier]

Hello,

I’m using the Facebook Events plugin to import new events from Facebook. It’s been working great for a while, but now I have a problem. The plugin started importing the same event over and over again. At some point I had over 40 events (of the same kind) listed on one day. How can I fix this? How can I get rid of those copied events?

Because of this, the plugin didn’t stop importing the same Facebook event image, over and over again, into my media library. Now I have 50+ copies of each image in my media library. I started to delete a few, but they won’t disappear. How can I get rid of all these Facebook events?

[Yvonne Heimann]

Same Issue here. Why is it a multitude of events?

[Johannes Maier]

@Support I’ve just deleted all fb events manually, because I had to clear my calendar. (Just in case you are checking my website)

For now I set new fb events to “pending” when imported. But I still would like to get some advice on how to prevent this to happen in the future.

[Josh]

Hey,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

The issue of multiple events importing via Facebook Importer has been a bit of an elusive one for us. Many times we’re unable to recreate the issues. One thing that would help here though would be if you were able to supply a database dump which includes the duplicated events. If you would like, you can supple links to those as a private reply here or email them to support[at]theeventscalendar.com

Thanks!

[Johannes Maier]

Hey Josh,

Thanks for getting back! I will see how it works in the next weeks, and if I come across the same problem, I will send you a copy of my database.

Thanks,
Johannes

[Josh]

Hey Johannes,

Awesome! Hopefully the issue doesn’t happen again but if it does we look forward to seeing the additional information.

Thanks!

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