Events missing after deinstalling / reinstalling plugin

[rvlak]

Dear Stephen,

I am developing a new website and added a few dozen events yesterday. This morning, I wanted to install the Pro plugin, and I was under the impression that I had to uninstall the free plugin first. When I did that and reinstalled it after finding out about my mistake, I discovered that all events, locations, and categories were gone, except one event.

Strangely enough, in the list of events, I still see the original count: All (22), Published (19) Drafts (3) but not the events I added yesterday. Besides, the event that has 'survived' can not be booked anymore, it says that 'This event ended on 29 December 2020' (which is a future date...)

Unfortunately Murphy's Law applies again, as I just found out that my website backups were not running as they were supposed to, so I am hoping you might know some other solution to resolve this.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[stephenharris]

Hi @rvlak ,

Uninstalling the plug-in will delete the dates table used by the plug-in, but it won't delete anything from the posts table. This is why you can still see the events, but the dates mean they don't appear. (Although I would have expected to see them in the admin table).

One way of fixing this is to edit the event and update it - that should "regenerate" the event dates. You could script that (just query all events, and 'update' them without changing anything) - and that should fix the missing dates.

[rvlak]

Hi @stephenharris Thanks for the advice, I have used your approach and got things back to work :-)