{"id":1285226,"date":"2017-05-17T16:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T23:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/duplicate-events-created-during-import\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T06:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:51:59","slug":"duplicate-events-created-during-import","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/duplicate-events-created-during-import\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicate Events Created During Import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having an issue with using an Imported iCal and event duplicating.  The feed seems to work fine as all items in the calendar that is importing show up.<\/p>\n<p>I have an automated iCal feed setup that imports every hour.  In the Event Update Authority settings, I have &#8220;Overwrite my event with any changes from the original source.&#8221; selected.  My assumption was that this setting would import the event once and then only make changes to the imported event vs. creating another event each time the importer runs.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know how to fix this issue?  Please advise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1285226","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>Duplicate Events Created During Import -<\/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\/duplicate-events-created-during-import\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Duplicate Events Created During Import -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m having an issue with using an Imported iCal and event duplicating. The feed seems to work fine as all items in the calendar that is importing show up. 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