Events are duplicated from Google calendar.
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@eggert They are gradually added. I noticed another event was edited on our end and it now appears twice when I opened the calendar pane here.
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@eggert This is how my week view looks now. Looks like I have to use a different calendar client for now until this is resolved
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With the latest update at least the repeating notification bug is solved, but the calendar events duplication is still there. I wanted to check if anything new happened here. Too bad that catching this bug is so tricky.
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Just adding my experience into the mix @eggert . For me it's when an event is updated on my Google calendars (GSuit).
Here's the original event details:
And here's the duplicated event that appeared after it was updated:
I can see that the 'Id' is different between them but the 'UID' is the same, maybe a clue?
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@JimTheKiwifruit Thanks for your input. I realize it has been a while, I was on summer vacation trying to get up to speed now, but I hope you can give me some more info on this.
The duplicated events you show there. The initial event was the one at 09:30 and then it was edited to have a single exception to move it to 11:15, is this correct?
Did this show up like this right after setting up your account in Vivaldi calendar or did the duplication happen later after you had synced the calendar before?
Have you seen more instances of duplication or this particular event duplicating more times?
Thanks for taking the time to report to us, it is appreciated.
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@eggert Yes, the original event was 9:30 then updated by the organiser to 11:15 for that day only.
The original event would have already been on my calendar when I added it to Vivaldi, then later the organiser added the exception causing the duplicate to appear (I found the invitation update email if that's useful?)
Yes, I'm now seeing more duplications of this and other events. With the event in question on the 13th July, the original 9:30 event has disappeared but the 11:15 one has duplicated several times.
Here's the upcomming 17th Aug:
So yes, I think the duplications happen after the initial sync. If you think it would be useful I could try removing the calendar then adding it again? See if the duplicates show up again.
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@JimTheKiwifruit That event on 17th of August, does it have an exception or is it just the original series that has gotten so many repetitions? If so does it apply to all instances? If you look at older instances some time back, do they all have as many duplicates?
You mention earlier invite emails, do you commonly get and accept invites for changes to the event series? If so, do you typically accept them in Vivaldi mail or on gmail site?
I know it is a lot of questions, this is one of the longest standing serious problems that we have and no luck ever reproducing it, so any help is very much appreciated.
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@eggert Happy to answer questions
The event on the 17th should be an occurrence of the original (i.e. as I understand, there should be an occurrence of the event on that day at 9:30) but looking at the event details it kinda looks like it has exceptions. (The following images are the first two duplicates)
Looking back at older instances, here's the first occurrence of this event and it to has been duplicated (16th May)
The "Feature Modularity" event on that day has no recurrence or exceptions. (The following are the details from the first two "Dev Standup" events on the 16th May)
Quickly scrolling through it looks like every Tuesday and Thursday (past and future, since the 16th May) has the event duplicated 6 times.I have not accepted any invites for changes to this event. We're a small team so events like these act as reminders rather than actual invitations. There have been some one-off events where I've accepted the invite, which I always accept from within Vivaldi mail.
In case this is useful, I've got another reoccurring event on the same calendar that's also duplicated but the exceptions look a bit different so maybe useful. Like the "Dev Standup" event this one appears to be equally duplicated since its creation 14 times each day it should occur.
(As usual a sample of the first two event details. Just noting the lack of exceptions and the "Exc. Id" being much longer was interesting.)
Hope that answers your questions, happy to answer more.
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Hello here.
I am sorry for the long period of silence and no progress being made on this issue. It's not been forgotten, but other things have taken focus and with this being hard to reproduce reliably it's tricky to move ahead. I have finally found something that might be a hint as to how this happen and would like to get some information in case there is someone out here suffering from the duplication and still using the calendar.
The info in question is not available in the UI so it requires a little hoop jumping.
- Open a new tab and navigate to vivaldi://inspect/#apps and click on inspect link below the line ending in /main.html
- In the dev tools window that opens, select Console tab.
- Copy the following command into the console prompt
vivaldi.calendar.getAllEvents(events => console.log(events.filter(e => e.title === "CHANGE_THIS_TEXT").map(e => [e.id, e.title, e.uid, e.href, e.etag])));changing the indicated text to the title of one of the events which is duplicated and hit enter.
This should return some data which can help to determine if my theory is correct or not.
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Hi @eggert ,
I'm having the same issue as above with the duplication of events from a google calendar.
And I've followed the steps you indicated in your recent post and it produced the word "Array" over and over and over again for I think 5675 lines
And then when I open one of those lines I get
That looks to be the only thing that gets returned from the prompt you gave above.
The blurred sections are just my email address.
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Oh, and this is what the calender itself looks like
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@Kenbuttshiro Wow, that is a lot of duplication.
This is the data that I was looking for, thank you. Unfortunately it does not show the condition I was hoping to see. So that idea is out the window. I will have to look further to find the explanation to this and why it only seems to affect some users and not others.Thank you very much for taking the time to help us improve Vivaldi, it is appreciated.
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@eggert for sure!
I really like the calendar integration, but this glitch is making it unusable currently. there are so many duplications that its lagging vivaldi when I open the calendar!
Hopefully something can be figured out someday!
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Have similar issue as @iyahnuestro - is there a way to select a bunch and then delete in one shot?
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@danielson said in Events are duplicated from Google calendar.:
Have similar issue as @iyahnuestro - is there a way to select a bunch and then delete in one shot?
I recently migrated my calendar from Google to Vivaldi servers and came across the same dilemna - ended up deleting 1000 entries using cursor keys and delete button while in month view... Not too bad, about half an hour of left-up-del-up-right-right-del-up... etc. but at first I was hoping for a way to shift-select a bunch of entries for deletion in month or agenda views.
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Same problem here using caldav + davmail. Alas. I recreated calendar and it helped at this time.
