Move events to another Calendar "Error : Cannot Change the organizer"

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Joan Romero

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Apr 1, 2021, 7:16:50 AM4/1/21
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Hi guys,

I want to move all events of one calendar to another, I have already moved most of them, but some gave my two errors:
1. "Move Failed: Cannot change the organizer of attendees copy of the event. (110/113)"
2. " Move Failed: Forbidden (113/113)

About the first error not sure why is showing that error, about the second errors I see that these events were cancelled but I hope there is a way to force the move of them.


The command I was using:
gam calendar origin.calendar move events to target.calendar

I also tried to do individually but no success :
gam calendar origin.calendar move event id anhF57cu6lnoegkpk2to5pdpkb to target.calendar

Any idea how to solve this issue? 


Kim Nilsson

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Apr 2, 2021, 4:44:26 AM4/2/21
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Have you verified that alla attendees are active accounts?
#1 seems to indicate that it can't modify all attendees' calendars.
#2 Is the event really owned by the user you think it is?

Joan Romero

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Apr 6, 2021, 3:25:27 AM4/6/21
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1.Yes I have checked and all attendes are active accounts
2.In this case the event is not owned by anyone atleast the ones I have checked ... 

I am morre worried by the first error because I have more events that I can't move 

Joan Romero

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Apr 6, 2021, 7:52:05 AM4/6/21
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Just to let you know guys I tried it via web, exporting the calendar and the importing and it worked fine,  all the events that with gam gave my an error were transferred. 

Samim Akram Khan

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Jan 20, 2023, 5:40:29 PM1/20/23
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Hi ,
Can you please share the steps you worked on the Google admin console, I'm having the same issue - I just want to transfer the ownership of a recurring event from an archived user.
Will really appreciate GAM Commands and suggestions.

Thank you.

Brian Kim

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Jan 23, 2023, 12:38:49 PM1/23/23
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Archived Users cannot call Calendar API through domain wide delegation. Therefore you would need to create a datatransfer request either in the Admin Console or using GAM. (Source user will likely need to be unarchived).

This will transfer all the events to a secondary calendar which $newowner will have owner access to. Owner when it comes to Google calendar means that they can manage events in the calendar and also share it. You can add other owners/writers as well so they can manage the events in the shared calendar (calendar IDs that end in groups.calendar.google.com)


gam create transfer $olduer calendar $newowner


Always use Calendar Debug URL to get the Calendar and Event IDs


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