How do I create a duplicate of a calendar event?
Creating recurring calendar events does not work for events that repeat but not on a predictable schedule. For example, my wife and I choose to eat out again at a restaurant where we previously dined (but it is not a weekly tradition), or I want to add another dentist appointment by copying a previous one that was 6 months ago.
For situations like these, I want to be able to copy a calendar event from one date and paste it on another date and then optionally edit it to change a few details.
There does not appear to be any way to duplicate an event in Thunderbird. My workaround is to open a web browser, log into Gmail, locate my calendar event there (which sucks if the one I want to copy is more than a few months in the past since the Google Calendar UX sucks and I can only move backward one month at a time and can't jump to a month/year in the past like I can in Thunderbird), then Google provides a way to duplicate the event. Then I wait for it to sync to my Thunderbird client.
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For situations like these, I want to be able to copy a calendar event from one date and paste it on another date and then optionally edit it to change a few details.
This is the way it works. What prevents you from doing this?
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Suluhisho teule
For situations like these, I want to be able to copy a calendar event from one date and paste it on another date and then optionally edit it to change a few details.
This is the way it works. What prevents you from doing this?
'christ1 said
This is the way it works. What prevents you from doing this?
Wow, you're right! It does work now with the latest release of Thunderbird but it hasn't worked in the past for me.
If I don't have the event open but am looking at its title entry in the month view, I can right-click > Copy, then click on the day where I want the duplicate and right-click > Paste.
In past months, I could not figure out a way to duplicate an event because while I could copy an event, paste was grayed out and Ctrl+V did nothing. Somehow paste is not grayed out and works. I don't see any mention of this being fixed in the release notes so I am puzzled.
Anyway, thanks for responding.
Ken
Sorry, but this is not working for me. I have the latest (I think) version of Thunderbird: 52.8.0. I can COPY and event, but when I try to paste it to another day (using either the right-click method or CTRL+V), nothing happens. (This is in the MONTH view.)
I have 52.8.0 at the moment and it works for me.
Just try it for different calendar events and be precise with your mouse clicks when selecting an event to copy with Ctrl+C or right-click and Copy.
Be sure and locate and select the future date where you want the event to be duplicated or it may just paste the duplicate on the same date as the original and then need to edit it to get it to show up where you want.
I got weird results when I copied and pasted one event of a set of recurring events -- it produced daily null entries with the same start time for as many consecutive days as the original recurring weekly event. But copying a single occurrence event, past or future, and pasting it to a future date works with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
Ken
Weird. I just tried it again-- did EXACTLY the same thing, but tried copying a holiday instead -- and it worked. Then it worked on the event I was originally trying to copy. I have NO idea what changed because I'm sure I was doing the same functions both times, but at least it works now. Thanks for your help.
JManSGV said
Sorry, but this is not working for me. I have the latest (I think) version of Thunderbird: 52.8.0. I can COPY and event, but when I try to paste it to another day (using either the right-click method or CTRL+V), nothing happens. (This is in the MONTH view.)
Same thing here. I could highlight and select an entry from the Month view, but moving 6 months ahead, it did not give me the option to paste.
Granted, this is linked to our family's Cozi calendar, so mabee that can't handle it (but Cozi can't do it either. Perhaps a glaring flaw on Cozi's part?)