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Thanks for your help. I’ve attached a look at the back end of the event that is now creating too many events. Before I changed the end date to December 31, 2016 rather than never ending, it only had 960 events created. Those are some from 2015 and then the two years forward that is set in our settings of the Event Calendar. As you can see now, it has nearly 3,000. I’ve continued to “trash series” but it is only deleting a few at a time as I said.
Is there a way for me to discontinue it from creating the recurring events in the background? If unpublish the event, will that do anything? I basically just need it to stop creating new entries so I can delete everything out.
Thank you for the help.
My initial issue was resolved regarding the first event this happened to after clearing the event out by going in, finding the coding, and completely deleting it out. However, after this occurred, I took precaution by going into the few long term recurring events we have and instead of having them set as “Never-ending” I changed the end date to Dec 31, 2016. This must have had an adverse effect because now the same thing that occurred to the other event is happening to this one.
I’m wondering if there is a bug in the calendar where if the date/time data is edited on a recurring event that is set to never end, it changes it across all the already created recurrences, but also recreates the entry for those same dates, making it so there are hundreds of extra events. This is my theory, not sure if there’s any merit to it. I thought I would share however because in my forum search for issues related to mine, it seemed like there was a problem for the developers of The Events Calendar being able to recreate the issue.
Also, as I am trying to clear the events out, they are continuing to develop in the background, making the work I am doing to clear them out for nothing. Is there a way to stop the event from developing any further? And also another way for me to delete the event altogether, because the “Trash Series” option did not work since there are so many created.
After filtering by start date, it listed several hundred events for today’s date, then dates from last year, and then more events connected to the current series. I’ve located two instances of the series (they were located somewhere within the middle of the pages) that say “Trash Series” and have selected this option on both, but after only a short length of time, the page times out. I have no problem with this if it means they are being deleted in the background, but that doesn’t seem to be the case as after checking my events listings a while after doing this, the number of total events only went down by about 10. It wasn’t until I went back in, found the initial events AGAIN and selected “Trash Series” another time that it when down by a little bit more. I’ve continually been doing that to bring the number down little by little, but I am praying there is a different way to do this…
That’s one of the issues. I cannot find the start of the series of events at all. I consistently see “Edit Series” but never “Trash Series” as I have in the past with other recurring events. Is there a good method on how to find it?
