Duplicate Events - Why?

When I do nothing more than import photos from a source, such as a camera, in almost every case I get a duplicate event with an identical set of photos in each. One event has the name from the date stamp of the camera (e.g. May 8 would name the event '8') and the other identical folder has is named "original.' I don't move, rename, merge, split, copy or otherwise do anything with the events. I don't add change or move between folders (that's a no-no with iphoto)
What am I doing wrong / could I do better?
Picasa?

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Loads of people have tired or compared picasa for mac. You can read about it on google.
Regards
TD

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Can someone please help me...
a. Understand why this is happening?
b. What settings must I put in (iSync? iCal? MobileMe?) to stop this from happening every time I want to sync?
c. How do I remove all the duplicate events already created in iCal?
Many thanks!

"Open "Settings" on the iPod Touch>Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks>Accounts>your MobileMe account and turn off Calendars, when prompted delete data, and wait two minutes, then turn Calendars back on. When asked merge the data, make that choice, and wait patiently. You should no longer have duplicates. If you are able, I recommend using a Wi-Fi connection to make the change. Then do the same thing for Contacts."
come on guys macs are easy but you really expect them to be idiot proof.... take a little initiative instead of complaining and it might pay off more. It took me a grand total of 2 min to find the workaround.... prob less time than it took you to whip off these posts.

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Why does my ical keep creating duplicate events on multiple devices!!!!! I have turned off icloud but it keeps getting worse! I'm up to 5 entries for all birthdays.

Have you seen this ?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/8210764#8210764

Importing iPhoto Back Up from DVD - Duplicate Event Issue

i'm trying to transfer the iphoto back ups (created in iPhoto) from DVD to my external hard drive. with the disc in, i create a new iphoto library, name it and import the "iPhoto Library" file from the DVD on to my laptop's hard drive. When i do so, it imports over 3,000 photos, whereas it should only be 2,623. when the import is done, i have duplicate events; it looks as though the events are the original and modified versions.
i don't want to have to reorganize my photos after importing them back in (there are 11 ). am i missing something?

doesn't keep the name, but dragging them one by one keeps them separate. guess that's not too bad; at least not as tedious as having to weed through all the photos.
is there some kind of automator i can use?
why don't the events transfer over? this particular back up is Jan. 2009 thru Jun. 2009. I bought iLife '09 in April. could it be because half the photos were organized with a previous version of iPhoto?
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Annoying duplicate events

I have been trying to get rid of duplicate events in my iCal calendar for ages and it seems like it is a never ending battle. I have three Macs, all with the latest OS, and other software. I also have an iPhone 3Gs and I prefer to keep their calendars all in sync.
I have tried using MobileMe to sync my calendars and Google CALdav calendars via Spanning Sync. Both ways yield the same problem. A few days ago when I had some extra time, I manually deleted all the duplicate events I could find in my calendar, then I archived it. I used a utility to locate the duplicate events. I then went to my other two Macs and I imported the same archive, which should have made all three Macs have the same calendar.. I also have an iPhone 3Gs, where I disabled the calendars before I did this, then I enabled the calendar again on my iPhone and allowed it to download all the events again.
Another day or two later, lots of events where I removed duplicates are now duplicated again. This tends to happen with the last day of a recurring event, but sometime its a middle day where the duplication occurs. I rarely see the problem with non-recurring events. In fact, had three events that had over 300 duplicates, which fortunately have not returned. Removing those duplicates was a pain in the neck.
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I have the same problem: icalc make a duplicate of all events. This happens in former time too, when apple make a new software update. I solved it by delete every double event.
Why apple can not get rid of these problem!!! The events are very important for me.
Dupe deleter don´t find the duplicates!
Apple have to update icalc with a funktion, that find these duplicates and make it possible to delete them!!!
Knows anyone a possibility to delete the duplicates comfortably?
Greats by rettho

Duplicate Events on iCal: How to Delete them.

I was having a problem deleting multiple events, particularly recurring imported ones. I could spend hours deleting them only to have them come back as soon as I scrolled a month forward or backwards. Sometimes events would appear 4 or 5 times on each date. It drove me insane.
This is the way to fix the duplication problem. You have to go back to the actual date you originated the event and modify it there. For example if you set up someone's birthday on October 3, 1998 in your calendar-regardless of the format (MAC or PC) you need to modify that date specifically.
I found that there are two versions of the same event on that specific date (10.3.98). They both appear as timed events versus ALL DAY checked events.
1. Delete the second (or third, fourth, fifth) one first, you might not be able to delete the top one right away, but you will soon.
2. Once you delete the second (or third, fourth and fifth) the first one becomes a recurring ALL DAY event.
3. After deleting the lower non-recurring one(s), then modify the top recurring event in some fashion-I found any minor editing or anything really typically fixes it. If you want to delete both events in 98, then this is the place to do it.
4. If you don't want to delete the entire event altogether, then simply modify the event as you wish and select DONE.
The key is finding the actual date of input regardless of the software you used to create the event.
-One

This is a way to delete duplicate events on iCal

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Thats a good tip Reggie.
For anyone else reading this post, keep in mind that if you see "duplicates" with the MobileMe calendar it may mean you are seeing two separate copies of the same calendar. Before spending time deleting individual events read this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3505

Sync between MacBookPro and iPhone 3G does not sync properly. Calendars duplicate events but worse is that only contacts from Address book from letter T onwards sync. Any contacts on iPhone which are not on Mac are lost during sync.

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Solutions?

No, I never really found an easy solution. I believe it is an issue with some corruption in the iTunes database on the specific device. In my case, both my iPad and iPhone now show duplicate stream songs if viewed through iTunes on my Mac, but they show different songs. A couple years ago I had a similar issue on my iPhone, and Apple support suggested I back up the phone, completely reset it, and then restore it from the backup. It did work, so I imagine it would probably work for my current issues with the iPhone and iPad. But resetting and restoring an iPad or iPhone always makes me a little nervous that something will get lost. When I did reset/restore the iPhone, I do have to say, the restore process was 100% perfect and I did not lose any data at all even though Apple support said I might. If you try to go that route, I would suggest backing the device up both to a computer through iTunes, and to the iCloud so that you have a double backup.
None of this really resolves the issue with how the iTunes databases are becoming corrupted on the apple devices though, so it is very likely to happen again until they fix it. I have been unable to determine if there were any specific actions or conditions which caused the corruption to happen in the first place.
Might be worth another call to Apple support, or dropping in the local Apple store if you have one near by.

How do I delete duplicate events in my iCal?

Using SyncMate to sync my calendar and contacts from my Droid X to my iMac (MAC Office doesn't work since I upgraded to Lion). Seemed successful. However, I now have duplicate events in my iCal. How can I delete the duplicate events?

Hello Linda,
Duplicate calendar entries can definitely clutter up iCal. I found an article that has specifically addresses duplicate birthday entries in iCal. You can find the steps under section titled "7. Clean up birthdays and use the Birthday Calendar" in the following article:
iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4337#Clean_up_Birthdays___Use_the_Birthday_Calenda r
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities.
All the best,
Sheila M.

How do I eliminate duplicate events in iCal?

I accidentally imported Mobile Me calender data after I had already set up iCloud syncing. Now I have dupicates of everything in iCal. ho do I eliminate them?

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I've just started using iCloud and now whenever it updates I get duplicate events in my calendar on my Mac. I delete one copy of each event and all seems well until the next sync. Is there a preference that I need to adjust to prevent this from happening?

Hi Tony,
You'll find iCal Dupe Deleter here.
Thanks for the mention LexSchellings. However i don't believe it will work in this case. If the events are in different calendars then they won't be considered duplicate.
TonyInSF could you answer these 3 questions?
When you look at the calendar list in iCal what sections are the calendars under ("ON MY MAC, "ICLOUD", "EXCHANGE", "GOOGLE" etc.)?
Are all the calendars checked when you look at the calendar list?
Where do you sync your calendars to?
(I'll also mention that iCal Dupe Deleter is donationware. If you do find it useful please donate.)
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I have configured a rights management process in 8.2 Livecycle to trigger off a document's events.
I am trying to understand what causes an event to be processed multiple times. My process is triggering the same event (exact same event id) multiple times within seconds (1 or 2) of one another. This does not happen for every event, but it happens often enough to be an issue.
I see there is a transaction timeout. I am using the default. Not sure what that is...
Has anyone experienced this? Any ideas on what I may need to adjust?

Hey,
I had a similar issue with LiveCycle ES 8.2, where in the exact same Event ID triggers a workflow process multiple times. Could you please confirm couple of things. Does your process orchestration involve multiple process invocations? Does your Service has multiple invocations from any sub process?
If at all the answer above is no, then, there has been a patch release with SP3, (3.19) that is related to that (it is a mandatory patch with Sp3.), I am not sure what version of LiveCycle ES you are running with, but related to the duplicate Event ID triggering for same process,if you are running with LiveCycle ES 8.2 GM or Sp1, these patches (Sp3,3.19,3.06), I reckon resolves this issue.
I would request you to contact the Adobe Technical Support with your Process Workflow sample to replicate the behavior with the correct environment specification for this confirmation, although, I reckon this is the issue and the patch should resolve the issue, but the confirmation is vital.
If at all you are running with LiveCycle ES2, (with the latest Service Pack), I would request you to again contact the Adobe Technical Support, since, this is just not the ideal behavior for the Events to generate a duplicate ID for the same process until unless there is a issue with the workflow orchestration design.
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I have just set up iCal for the first time and asked it to synch with my Google Calendar. Somewhere between the two systems I have had hundreds of duplicate events set up. The problem seems to only occur on recurring events. The new events are sprinkled liberally all over my calendar with no hint of when the original even was set up for. For example one event occurs at least twice a week from January 1920 onwards, in my original calendar this was set up as an annual recurring event only last year.
When I try to delete the events I am told the request has failed with the following message:
The server responded with
“HTTP/1.1 500 Server error code: 4bf55f72”
to operation CalDAVDeleteEntityQueueableOperation.
Also I frequently find the synching circle is running round and iCal just stops working i.e. can't enter new events or check my calendar.
Any advice gratefully received!
Jane

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You are getting errors from the Google Server. This suggests there are issues with the data contained within Google and not in iCal so there may not be much we can do from here. I would be curious to know if you go to one of those recurring events on Google, does it have an end date or does it go on forever? Does it have a start date that is odd (you mention 1920...are you sure that you don't see a very early start date on Google.com?)
That said lets try some basics:
What version of the Mac OS are you running on your computer (Apple Menu > About this Mac)?
1. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal 1 at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
2. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
---NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
Once the computer is back up and running open iCal and test.
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I have duplicate events in my Calendar on my iPhone 6. These do not show up in my MacBook Air, on my iMac, or in iCloud.com. The duplicates only appear on my iPhone calendars.
I have gone into iPhone settings and turned off Calendars under the iCloud section, and selected the option to Delete events on my device. That fixes the problem temporarily, and the next day all the duplicates are back again.
Help!

Not sure if you have tried this.
On your iPhone, go to Settings > iCloud turn off Calendars, and choose, delete from my iPhone. Then turn Calendars on. This should get rid of the duplicates.

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Hi there, I'm trying to open an FCPX event that I moved to an external harddrive. After moving the event folder, I deleted the original event from my internal drive.
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