Easy way to delete old events

[Dempsey]

Using TB 14.0 and Lightning 1.6

Over the last few years I have accumulated many old events in my local
calendar. Is there an easy way to delete those old events?

[Philipp Kewisch]

The first thing that comes to mind is selecting all events in the events
list, sorting by date, then removing all old ones. There is no other
automated way I know of.

Be careful when deleting events this way as there is no backup. Make
sure the events you have selected are really the ones you want to delete.

Philipp

[Christoph Schmees]

, particularly if they are recurring events. When you delete the
"source" all future instances are deleted as well! In those cases
you'd better *change* the event (the starting date) instead of
deleting it. Or make a new copy and then delete the old one.

Christoph

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[Stefan Sitter]

Philipp Kewisch wrote:
> Be careful when deleting events this way as there is no backup. Make
> sure the events you have selected are really the ones you want to
> delete.

Your own Trashcan extension might be helpful in this case because it
allows to keep the deleted events for some time in the special Trashcan
calendar until final removal ;)

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/trashcan/

Stefan

[Dempsey]

Thank you all for the tips and warnings. Obviously it is not as simple
as in the olden days of Outlook 2000.