Open kruthers64 opened 8 months ago
Ugh ok, it seems there is a size limit on extendedProperties
. You've deleted enough occurrences and acknowledge enough alarms that this limit is hit. The only workaround I can offer right now is to delete the event and recreate it. If you are able to use Google's API playground, you could also delete the content of the extendedProperties
and then re-subscribe to the calendar.
Thanks, and yes I already did the delete/recreate workaround. Just figured it was worth reporting.
You did the right thing, thank you!
Describe the problem and steps to reproduce it:
I use a recurring event as a reminder or TODO item. When complete I use "Delete only this occurence" to remove a single event, leaving future recurrences alone. Over time this has created a growing list of exceptions to the recurrence until the API call was over a size limit and rejected by google.
Sync failures have been happening for several months without my knowing about it. I only noticed after I logged into google calendar and saw months of old events still there. Enabling
calendar.debug.log
showed the problem.What happened?
Calendar event changes made in thunderbird were silently failing to get synced to google calendar.
What did you expect to happen?
Some sort of warning or error message about the failures. I understand this might be a weird workflow and be a very difficult use case to support, but it would be great if it didn't fail silently.
Anything else we should know?
Linux Mint 20.3 Thunderbird 115.6.0 (64-bit) Provider for Google Calendar 115.0.2
Debug log of the problem: