Local calendar entries overwritten by sync

Bug Reports
1

REPRODUCIBILITY: Sometimes
OS VERSION: 5.2.0.17
HARDWARE: JPhone 2026
UI LANGUAGE: German
REGRESSION: Maybe?

DESCRIPTION:

Locally created calendar entries get overwritten when synching google calendar,
even tho they are stored on the server. This happened after I refreshed the Google token (as the calendars were not syncing from the remote side), so dont know if there is a relation between the two.

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Create a local calendar entry (in a given google calendar)

  2. Make sure it ends up on the server side / is visible there

  3. Refresh the token

  4. Sync the calendar

EXPECTED RESULT:

The locally created entries should not be deleted

ACTUAL RESULT:

The merging of the phone calendar with the remote one is somehow removing the local entries

MODIFICATIONS:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Configuration of account:

  • sync on for mail & calendar
  • Content sync disabled
    This has happened a few times, but not steadily
2

What do you mean by “attach it to a google calendar” ? Do you export it to ICS data and import these data into a Google calendar with online service or from the device itself ?

3

By “attaching to a google calendar” I mean create the entry in a specific google calendar (updated).

And good point, this is actually also about invitations to events.

In that case, when I accept the invitation from the mail (by pressing “yes”), the event gets added to my calendar (on the server side). Then, I sync, and somehow it disappears from the calendar completely.
Also aligned the frequency (as in the notes I mentioned that this seems to happen only sometime)

4

What mail app are you using? The built-in one? (I ask because I don’t believe that one supports accepting meetings at all)

How are you syncing your calendars? Did you export to ICS and import to the native calendar app? If that’s the case I don’t believe you can sync to Google, only from.

It sounds like you may be doing something with other mail/calendar apps, so we need more information in order to help you in any meaningful way.

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5

Correct, I am using only the mail client really (to answer “yes” to meeting requests); and no other calendar app (all my calendar entries are managed from JPhone)

6

Ah I see there is a built in google integration, I did not realise that was there.

Is google not syncing to a separate calendar? I have a fully local personal calendar, and everything I’ve added as an account (Nextcloud for me) shows up as separate calendars. The syncs never touch the personal calendar.

7

Yes, but (as stated in the bug report) I “pinned” the locally created items to the google calendar, not my own :slight_smile: (btw I also have NextCloud calendar enabled)

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