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Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Hi, newest EPIM biz, 997, Win 8.1 and 10,

So, for years reminders in Calendar have not been working as they should, now just another example:
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Sometimes I can see five of them.
Sometimes one of them all of a sudden is set to some random "9 hours 30 minutes before" or whatever you might think of.

Would be great if this basic functionality of any PIM type software has been fixed once for good. :)

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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Regularly, old appointments pop up in reminders window, like from year ago and so on.

As said, this is basic for that type of a program: reminding what is going on and what should be done.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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This report is first of its kind. We need more info and the specific steps in order to reproduce and fix the issue.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Hello Admin, I reported problems with reminders 5+ years ago.

No chance to reproduce. It is so random.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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OK, another example, triggered today:
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And these are settings in the appointment, see this odd 9 days and some hours:
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Do you sync with something? Maybe these additional times are coming from the service you sync with?
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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I do, but only EPIM -> something. Never the other way.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Here is from today, from another db, the last four are actually doubled two:
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And settings, from both doubled reminders, the same in both:
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Unfortunately posting new screenshots will not help us with finding out the problem in any way. What could help is if you make a copy of your DB, delete all the sensitive info from it, make sure there's still some events in question and forward it to us.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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admin wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:01 pm Unfortunately posting new screenshots will not help us with finding out the problem in any way. What could help is if you make a copy of your DB, delete all the sensitive info from it, make sure there's still some events in question and forward it to us.
Hello, deleted sensitive, sending DB in a minute by PM to you.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Hello admin, just reassuring myself, have you received DB in a private message? I am not sure how this messaging system works but I see it still in Outbox.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Yep, got the DB, thanks. Looking at it.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Thank you, sorry for bothering.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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The bottom screenshot:
I believe this happens, also to tasks (shown in Calendar), when an appointment or a task is moved to another day, with the same reminder, and then it is triggered on the new date.
I think then the second reminder is created, after triggering. But not sure about that.
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Re: Bug, persisted for years: Reminders in Calendar messed up

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Couldn't reproduce the problem following the above mentioned steps, unfortunately.
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