Duplicates in Birthday Calendar

[KathyF]

Good day: I have duplicate birthdays showing in my calendar on my Mac Pro 13". Im running 10.15.2 Catalina. I tried unchecking the Birthdays Calendar but all birthdays disappear not just the duplicates. I looked in Apple Support but wasn't able to find anything helpful. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. Thank you. Kathy

 

[IWT]

Hi Kathy,

Thanks for your post.

The Birthdays' Calendar gets the data from your Contacts - from the "Birthday" field. Might be worth looking in Contacts and seeing if there are any duplicate entries there.

Do please post back and let us know.

Ian

 

[Slydude]

Are you using iCloud to sync information between your Mac and another devce (iPhone, iPad, etc)? If so y's probably;y showing you the entries for both the Birthdays entries that are stored on your Mac and the Birthdays entries o your device. This article may help.

 

[KathyF]

Hi Ian.
I thought I posted a reply to you as soon as you responded but its not here for some reason. I do apologize for the delay in getting back to you.

So, I did check my contacts and there are no duplicates however right after I posted my question, I thought about checking Calendar Preferences. I unchecked the Birthday Calendar and nothing changed so I checked it again, closed the preferences and when I looked at my calendar the duplicates were gone. What a simple fix. Lol. Would have saved me a lot of frustration if I'd have tried that first.

Thanks for your help Ian, I really appreciate it.

Kathy

 

[IWT]

Hi Ian.
I thought I posted a reply to you as soon as you responded but its not here for some reason. I do apologize for the delay in getting back to you.

So, I did check my contacts and there are no duplicates however right after I posted my question, I thought about checking Calendar Preferences. I unchecked the Birthday Calendar and nothing changed so I checked it again, closed the preferences and when I looked at my calendar the duplicates were gone. What a simple fix. Lol. Would have saved me a lot of frustration if I'd have tried that first.

Thanks for your help Ian, I really appreciate it.

Kathy

Delighted you got it sorted. It was down to you; certainly not me No need to apologise. Thanks for the feedback.

Ian

 

[KathyF]

Hello Kevin

Thank you for article.

I do use iCloud to sync between my devices and I did check my iPhone and iPad but there were no duplicates. I did discover a fix however, right after I posted my request for help.

I opened Calendar Preferences and the only thing there I could really do was uncheck the Birthday Calendar so that's what I did but nothing changed. I checked the box again and closed preferences. When I looked at my Calendar again the duplicates were gone.

Voila! Such a simply fix. Wished I would have thought of that to begin with, would have saved myself time and frustration.

Thank you for your help Kevin, I appreciate your time.

Kathy