{"id":1123648,"date":"2016-06-07T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/2-recurring-events-have-multiplied-into-50-150-per-day\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:22:35","slug":"2-recurring-events-have-multiplied-into-50-150-per-day","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/2-recurring-events-have-multiplied-into-50-150-per-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Recurring Events have multiplied into 50-150 per day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday the person who does the calendar entries tried to uncheck Saturday on a recurring event that was not supposed to be on a Saturday. Sometime after that, that event multiplied until every Saturday for 2 years had between 50 and 150 of that event and most weekdays too. Interestingly the weekday ones show up on the back end but NOT on the calendar itself. <\/p>\n<p>We think that at the same time another event that had not been edited or touched in any way, multiplied too. In all there were about 15000 duplicate recurring events, and I think the only thing that stopped the process is that the VPS server restarted from the CPU load.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve (I&#8217;m the webmaster, not the owner) been deleting all these duplicates as fast as I can but even using Bulk Delete and increasing both the php memory and the wordpress memory I can only go 130 at a time and that takes about 5 minutes. There are still about 5000 of one event and 1000 of the other left to go (yes, I&#8217;ve deleted 9000+ by hand). I&#8217;ve contacted the Bulk Delete plugin developer and he is trying to help too, but this is VERY bad timing as we&#8217;re heading into our busy season (of course &#8211; Murphy&#8217;s law) and one of those recurring nightmares, the one with 5000 remaining is on Saturday, our busiest day, and obscuring all the legit events happening on Saturdays for the rest of the summer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve tried resetting the period that the recurring events go forward to only one year, and I read in one of the forum messages about runaway recurring events that that was subject to a cron job, but it&#8217;s been 24 hours and there&#8217;s been no change other than the ones I&#8217;ve deleted. <\/li>\n<li>I tried the cleanup plugin that was mentioned in one post but that crashed the site and I had to restart the server again. That was with all plugins disabled except the 2 calendar plugins.<\/li>\n<li>I looked at the MySQL query listed in one post and read the article but that&#8217;s based on category and really I need to delete them based on title and I&#8217;m not that comfortable with my MySQL skills.\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve talked to the Host who looked at the server and the server history and didn&#8217;t see anything untoward, except that the CPU load spiked and the server restarted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And most importantly &#8211; <strong>WHY<\/strong>? What kind of incense do I have to burn to have this <strong>NEVER<\/strong> happen again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1123648","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>2 Recurring Events have multiplied into 50-150 per day -<\/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\/2-recurring-events-have-multiplied-into-50-150-per-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2 Recurring Events have multiplied into 50-150 per day -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Sunday the person who does the calendar entries tried to uncheck Saturday on a recurring event that was not supposed to be on a Saturday. 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