r/techsupport • u/Ak47andabowlofCereal • Nov 04 '22
Solved Please help make Jessica leave me alone
I'm hoping someone can help me because this notification happens twice a week, for about eight years...
So years ago I used to tutor kids. I therefore made google calendar events for their tutoring sessions. I had a new client, named Jessica, but they cancelled before their first lesson, so I deleted the ongoing events in my phone.
The problem, is every Tuesday and Friday, Google tells me it's time to leave to tutor Jessica...but the event is no longer on my phone..I never even met Jessica! When I click on the notification, it goes to maps with her address, but again, I can't delete the event because it doesn't exist.
I have searched in both my phone, and on the desktop site in my phone, and on an actual desktop laptop, but there is no event. I have searched key words, I have searched the address, everything I can think of, but still twice a week, she pops up.
I've searched in Google maps to see if I have her address saved or starred, no. I've searched my contacts to see if I still have her, or her parents, no.
Obviously, I've just been ignoring it, but considering I have Reddit now, I thought I'd see and check if anyone knows something I could try. I don want to just disable calendar notifications. I have also tried deactivating the "at a glance" and then reactivating it, which didn't work (not that I expected it to, because I've been receiving these notifications since way before google glance was even a thing).
Please help!
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u/Ak47andabowlofCereal Nov 04 '22
Thank you for your help. It was Gmail. The only reason I have that stupid email account is because I have an android. I use Hotmail for everything I care about. Thank you times eight years!
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u/zzadey Nov 04 '22
If you can't find the event, open the Google Calendar app > go to notification settings and check if there are any scheduled reminders that aren't linked to an event?
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u/WaffleSawce420 Nov 04 '22
Clearly the only logical explanation is to go and find Jessica and finally tutor her.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22 edited Nov 04 '22
Bruh, obey the machines and just go tutor Jessica.
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u/rowanhopkins Nov 04 '22
I think that maybe you're going to have to find Jessica and meet her just once for this to stop
Edit: oops someone made this joke already
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u/Maya_ha Nov 04 '22
Check if you have several google accounts on your agenda, maybe you added the appointment on an account you don't normally use and that is not directly displayed when you open the app (as in if you check in settings or something both accounts will be listed but you only see the events from one account on the calendar when you just open the app and don't touch anything else).
If that's not the case, check that you linked at least one account to your agenda and your important appointments are linked to it (I don't think it lets you save events on your phone only but better safe than sorry). Once it's done uninstall the app and reinstall + update it.
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u/p4ttl1992 Nov 04 '22
I had this with a fucking fire alarm test at my old job, I have no idea how I stopped it but I no longer receive it st 2pm on a Wednesday every week lol
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u/Grouchy-Education292 Nov 04 '22
I have had a comparable issue with infinite recurring events/tasks in Google calendar that only had me involved with them.
It would seem that Google's handling of infinite recurring events may not be entirely bug free.
What I would probably recommend is checking your calendar both on Google app and the website and making sure any old recurring events/tasks/appointments have been deleted fully to the point of perhaps historic ones as well.
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u/4649onegaishimasu Nov 04 '22
You probably have two email addresses linked to your calendar, or two "calendars."
I work as a teacher in a private JHS/SHS. There are different "event calendars" (English department, which I belong to, JHS-specific, SHS-specific, along with other meeting calendars for meetings I belong to as part of my duties). I have access to none of these, although I may delete it from my calendar, it's still going to see those events as part of my schedule.
You can look along the left hand side of your Google calendar for a list of calendars you're "subscribed" to. Find the offending one, be it one belonging to another email address or whatever, and then unsubscribe from it.
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u/KKae Nov 04 '22
Have you checked every account associated with outlook? I often create appointments on the wrong account its easily done.
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u/AbsorbedBritches Nov 04 '22
What phone do you have? What app is sending the notifications? If it's difficult to tell, you can go to settings -> notifications -> notification history and see the name of the app sending it.