[horde] Old appointments got removed -- why?

[Simon B]

On 20 Apr 2017 23:42, "Arjen de Korte" <arjen+horde at de-korte.org> wrote:
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> Citeren Simon B <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:
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>> On 20 Apr 2017 21:38, "Jan Schneider" <jan at horde.org> wrote:
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>>> Zitat von Christian Wolf <christian at wolf-stuttgart.net>:
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>>>> Hello at everyone,
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>>>> I use horde now since november or december 2015. I am pretty sure, that
>>>> I added appointments in 2015.
>>>>
>>>> Now I wanted to look up some old events in 2015 and saw that there were
>>>> no appointments anymore. The first appointment is on 2016-01-04. As we
>>>> are in year 2017 now I am wondering if there is some automatic removal
>>>> in horde kronolith present. I found something in the settings but the
>>>> check box is not checked.
>>>> Was there maybe a bug and the box was not evaluated correctly?
>>>>
>>>> I am using horde 5.2.16 and kronolith 4.2.18 at the moment. This is of
>>>> course only the actual version number. Also I see that there are
>>>> updates, which I will soon install.
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>>>> Thank you very much
>>>> Christian Wolf
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>>> Yes, there is a login task to delete old events, and yes, it needs to be
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>> activated to be triggered. So either this was active at one point, maybe
>> even locked as a preference. Or some external client "cleaned up" your
old
>> events.
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>> I would like to disable such a task globally.  How?
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> The following in 'kronolith/config/prefs.local.php' should lock the value
to 'disabled':
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>   <?php
>   $_prefs['purge_events']['value'] = 0;
>   $_prefs['purge_events']['locked'] = true;
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> This may not help for users that already have enabled this preference
before. I usually globally remove any preference I lock from the storage
backend for all users. In this case, you'd be looking for the 'horde_prefs'
table and remove the rows with 'pref_scope' kronolith and 'pref_name'
purge_events. YMMV.

I thank you.

Simon