{"id":1007669,"date":"2015-09-22T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/importer-not-importing-for-the-set-recurrence-imports-duplicates\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:05:07","slug":"importer-not-importing-for-the-set-recurrence-imports-duplicates","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/importer-not-importing-for-the-set-recurrence-imports-duplicates\/","title":{"rendered":"Importer not importing for the set recurrence + imports duplicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>We have an iCal feed which we want to auto-import every hour. However we have two issues:<\/p>\n<p>1. For some reason the import has imported duplicates of ALL events which I now have to delete (there are almost 300 events in total). Why does this happen? Does the importer preserve imported events that are not in the feed causing the duplicates? Does it just re-import all events every time instead of updating previously imported events? Can it just remove events not included so we only have the correct events from the feed and would this avoid duplicates?<\/p>\n<p>2. The import is set to run hourly and was first initiated on September 1, however the last update was September 6. Why is this not working?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1007669","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Importer not importing for the set recurrence + imports duplicates -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/importer-not-importing-for-the-set-recurrence-imports-duplicates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Importer not importing for the set recurrence + imports duplicates -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there, We have an iCal feed which we want to auto-import every hour. However we have two issues: 1. 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