{"id":1098946,"date":"2016-04-06T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/ical-importer-duplicating-events-known-issue\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:35:05","slug":"ical-importer-duplicating-events-known-issue","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/ical-importer-duplicating-events-known-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"ical importer duplicating events \u2014\u00a0known issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In searching the forum, I am finding a lot of reports of this, so I understand I&#8217;m not alone with this experience.<\/p>\n<p>We are consistently seeing the ical importer create new events on every import for calendars, regardless of how we have set the import.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 2 URLs of the same event, one imported on March 31, the other on April 6 (we had turned off the ical importer when we first saw this behavior, and turned it back on to re-test):<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/umaine.edu\/campusrecreation\/event\/softball-entry-deadline\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/umaine.edu\/campusrecreation\/event\/softball-entry-deadline-2\/<\/p>\n<p>The calendar that these are imported from:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/7357k65seetlltq4b7ochq0ckc%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics<\/p>\n<p>Our quantity of calendar events has swollen to 3,700+, I understand we have a lot of work ahead of us to delete events as there is no easy way to undo the problematic duplicate imports.<\/p>\n<p>What fixes are on the way for this? We understandably cannot use this ical importer for our website as long as it recreates all of the events every time it imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1098946","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>ical importer duplicating events \u2014\u00a0known issue? -<\/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\/ical-importer-duplicating-events-known-issue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ical importer duplicating events \u2014\u00a0known issue? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In searching the forum, I am finding a lot of reports of this, so I understand I&#8217;m not alone with this experience. 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