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I recently removed a number of contacts from Gmail but their birthday's still show up in my contacts birthday's calendar I subscribe to.

I unsubscribed/resubscribed to the calendar but the birthdays for contacts I've removed are still there.

Is there a way to reload the calendar so it matches my updated contacts list?

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  • Did you delete the contacts or just remove them from the My Contacts group?
    – msanford
    Commented Dec 1, 2010 at 23:22
  • I actually deleted them from Contacts.app on my iPod touch and it synced with Google Sync which was setup on my touch. It's been a couple weeks and the changes still haven't been committed to my Google Calendar. However if I delete from the contacts manager in Gmail from a web browser changes are shown immediately.
    – Thardus
    Commented Dec 23, 2010 at 17:48

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It seems to be an overnight process. A couple months ago I added a whole bunch of anniversaries and birthdays and they didn't actually appear in the calendar until the next day. Same when I removed some.

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  • I found it's immediate since when I deleted from the Gmail contact manager changes were immediate on the Calendar side for birthdays. I think it had to do with deleting contacts from my iPod and having Google Sync not send those changes back properly from my iOS device.
    – Thardus
    Commented Dec 23, 2010 at 17:50
  • Yes, the "overnight" thing is an inference, not a fact. Based on my observations today, I think like @Thardus that this is not an overnight process, but rather one that has some zombie characteristics.
    – Jérémie
    Commented Nov 2, 2023 at 16:09
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I finally figured it out while doing some cleaning in my Google Contacts.

For those who are wondering how to fix the problem I was having do the following:

  • Export Google contacts to a file on your PC
  • Delete all contacts from your Google account
  • Restore the file you just exported.

When I did that it refreshed/reloaded all my contacts and cleaned up the zombie entries.

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  • I want to add to this answer: Today, I had the same issue. I made a large update on birthdays that did not seem to propagate to the "Birthdays" calendar that Google automatically creates. I deleted a single contact, and this seems to have had the effect of updating the index or something. I did not need to add all contacts for this to take effect. It could be that the process that generates birthdays is only triggered when there is an addition/removal of a contact. Any addition/removal might trigger it.
    – Jérémie
    Commented Nov 2, 2023 at 16:10

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