Google Calendar: event deleted - what to do?

If you accidentally deleted an important appointment from the Google Calendar, the entry is not permanently lost. We'll show you how to restore it here.

Google Calendar - Undo event deletion instantly

As long as you have not yet carried out any other calendar action, you can undo the deletion. To do this, simply click on the "Undo" link that appears above the calendar.

Google Calendar - restore deleted appointments with the Java program "Undelete Events"

If you believe Google, a deleted appointment can no longer be easily restored if it has been deleted and the link to undo is no longer displayed. Fortunately, that's not true. The developer Dominique Andre Gunia (CalenGoo) offers a practical Java program for the recovery of deleted appointments on his homepage. To use this, the Java Runtime Environment must be installed on your system.

1. Open the link //www.calengoo.com/webstartUndeleteEvents/undeleteevents.jnlp in your web browser and download the file.
2. Start the "undeleteevents.jnlp" file. You may need to adjust the Java security settings for the program to work.
3. Enter your email address and your Google password in the appropriate fields. Then click on the "Sign In" button.
4. The program now shows you the calendars that are assigned to your account. Select the calendar in which you deleted the appointment.
5. You will now see an overview of all appointments that have been deleted recently. Select the appointment you want to restore and click "Undelete". You can also mark several appointments and then restore them at the same time.
6. Update the Google Calendar in your browser.

Google Calendar - restore deleted appointments with the web app "Spanning Undelete"

The company Spanning offers a free tool with which you can also restore deleted appointments in your Google Calendar. The tool works entirely in the browser, a download is not necessary:

1. Open the link //freetools.spanning.com/undelete/signin.
2. Log in with your Google user data and accept that the "Spanning Undelete for Google Calendar" app can access your data.
3. Select the calendar in which you deleted the appointment. You will now see an overview of all deleted appointments. Mark one or more appointments with a check mark. Then click on "Undelete".
4. Select whether the appointments are marked "[UNDELETED]" and whether any invitations should be sent again. Then click "Undelete" again.

Google Calendar - manually restore deleted appointments

You can also view the details of a deleted appointment via the modified private address of your Google calendar and create a new appointment on this basis:

1. In the "My calendars" overview on the left, move the mouse pointer to the calendar in which you have deleted the appointment. Now click on the right arrow and select the "Calendar Settings".
2. In the "Private address" area, click on the orange XML button. Then click on the displayed URL.
3. Add the string "? Showdeleted = true & showhidden = true" (without quotation marks) to the end of the URL and then press [Enter].
4. You will now see your calendar's XML feed page, which also shows deleted and hidden appointments. In Chrome they only see the confusing XML code, Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer are more suitable.
5. Create a new appointment in Google Calendar based on the information shown.

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