Contacts birthday are shown double in calendar

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Does executing sync-birthday-calendar with the occ command solve your problems?

./occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar

Edit: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/10.0/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html#dav-label

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sadly I have no shell access because it is a webhosting package. is there a possibility to execute this over the
nextcloud website?

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It is not directly possible to use occ commands without shell access.
A workaround is proposed in in this discussion, starting from this comment:

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I have the same problem – even tripple events. I tried to understand, what happens in the code, but I am not familiar with the DAV API. Sync didn’t help, either.

I think there was an issue about this on the owncloud github, I have to search again and than we should move to github with the conversation.

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after some tests i can get database access if I use

‘dbhost’ => ‘127.0.0.1’, localhost didn’t work.

so I’m able to run the command

ich@owncloud/htdocs$ ./occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar
Start birthday calendar sync for all users 

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sadly the problem did not solve. I still have to birthday entry’s in calendar.

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Mhmm
 Is it possible, that you have multiple contacts for one person?
If not, would you mind opening an issue and describe your problem on GitHub:

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for me it is solved with deleting the contact birthday calendar.
and let it create new with ./occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar.

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i have the same problem with duplicate contacts birthdays and deleted the contacts birthday calender to get rid of the duplicates. but how do you run ./occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar on a nextcloud box? i can ssh to the box (running 10.0.2) but running the command gives no such file or directory

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You need to go to the nextcloud directory in your box and zhen issue the command.

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that’s /snap/nextcloud/, right? doesn’t make a difference, with or without using sudo.

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I am sorry, I don’t know about the folder structure on a nextcloud bix because I don’t have one. Can’t help any further.

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You could use the following command to find out where occ is located:
find / -name occ
May take a while until you see a result though


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The Nextcloud Box actually uses the Nextcloud Snap, which has the CLI Utility nextcloud.occ you can call, instead off occ.
See: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Included-CLI-utilities

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thanks @eppfel!

for future reference to other nextcloud box users:

  1. delete contact birthdays calendar
  2. ssh into your nextcloud box
  3. run sudo nextcloud.occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar
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There is another way to get rid of the double entries if the occ doesn’t work as on my NAS:

  1. Create a new adressbook
  2. Export your contacts of your old adressbooks
  3. Delete all the old adressbooks
  4. Delete the birthday-calendar
  5. Create a new adressbook for your contacts
  6. Import the contacts

Finally the calendar is created automatically.

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How do i delete the adressbook? I can not find a button.

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Step 1 of my list!

You must first create one before you can delete the old! Obviously it is not possible to use nextcloud without any adressbook.

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Obviously:-),

But still very confusing to a user that wants to do some migration for some reason. It would be more intuitive if you could delete first and then get a message in contacts that you should first create an addressbook before contacts is usable.

Regards,

Bert

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Just to add to this solution - if you removed the contacts_birthday subscription as a user, then you need to re-generate the subscription calendar specifically for that user:
./occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar

Found in: https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/issues/153#issuecomment-408388267

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Hi Micha-Btz,
where did you find the logs in DAVDroid? I am mostly interested in the following posted expression, as I would like to access my birthday calendar via ICS (read only), but could only find the direct link to the calendar, where you always need to log in:
HTTP REQUEST: PUT /remote.php/caldav/calendars/MichaDO/contact_birthdays/431f1fde-fd75-4b8c-8ba9-0854a31dd49b.ics If-Match: “b24b014ac8d13a5c8a3b128eb95ae215”

So I am missing the access 431f1fde-fd75-4b8c-8ba9-0854a31dd49b for my birthday calendar

Regards 
 Max