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Print at Aug 15, 2025, 10:17:52 AM

Posted by support at Sep 28, 2012, 11:07:29 PM

Re: iCal Merge Issue
What I noticed from looking at the raw source of the merged iCal feeds is that some of the events are in fact duplicated.

A good indication that localendar is not duplicating the events is the very fact that only some events are doubled and not all.

For example, I looked at Sep 18, 2012. The Quickbooks - Beginner event is a double, but the Amazon event is not. Sure enough; the Quickbooks event is in the feed twice.

The first instance occurs on line 326:

BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20110803T164750Z
UID:34728549-5B9C-4D26-9F39-2E541DA4EF7E
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120918T213000
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SUMMARY:CE: QuickBooks - Beginner
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120918T173000
DTSTAMP:20120718T193741Z
LOCATION:4800 Preston Park Blvd. Plano\, TX 75093
SEQUENCE:1
DESCRIPTION:<div style="background: #fff\; padding: 10px\;">\n\n    <p>Q
 uickBooks - Beginner</p>\n    \n    <p>Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday\, 3 Se
 ssions\, $119</p>\n    \n       <p>To register: <a href="http://www.coll
 in.edu/ce/" target="_blank" >http://www.collin.edu/CE</a></p></div>\n
END:VEVENT

and the second on line 3418

BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20110803T164750Z
UID:34728549-5B9C-4D26-9F39-2E541DA4EF7E
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120918T213000
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SUMMARY:CE: QuickBooks - Beginner
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120918T173000
DTSTAMP:20120718T193741Z
LOCATION:4800 Preston Park Blvd. Plano\, TX 75093
SEQUENCE:1
DESCRIPTION:<div style="background: #fff\; padding: 10px\;">\n\n    <p>Q
 uickBooks - Beginner</p>\n    \n    <p>Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday\, 3 Se
 ssions\, $119</p>\n    \n       <p>To register: <a href="http://www.coll
 in.edu/ce/" target="_blank" >http://www.collin.edu/CE</a></p></div>\n
END:VEVENT

If you look at the DTSTART line, you will see that the date/time value for each event is identical, which is why you are seeing 2 events when you merge this feed into localendar.
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Marc Higgins
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