Fixing duplicate birthday entries in Nextcloud 19
Nextcloud automatically generates a birthday calendar from a user’s contacts. Unfortunately older contact cards that have been carried over through various Nextcloud version upgrades can result in duplicate entries.
Overview
This issue (documented under #1506 and #1902) is a long-standing one on GitHub but has a straight-forward server-side fix proposed by Micha-Btz.
- Delete affected user’s birthday calendar using the web interface
- Run the
occ
command line utility to regenerate birthday calendar
Deleting the affected user’s birthday calendar using the web interface
Navigate to your https
Nextcloud instance, log in as the affected user and delete the Contact Birthdays
calendar.
Navigate to the Nextcloud installation directory server-side
Make use of the occ
command line utility by navigating to the root installation folder of your Nextcloud instance and,
using your appropriate web-user
and php
installation run the following:
www-data
, php7.4
and username
may be substituted for values appropriate to your installation.
That’s all there is to it.
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