# Past events keep getting deleted
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** events
**Created:** [November 10, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044 "2023-11-10T07:00:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@JamesTheClarke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesTheClarke)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044/1 "2023-11-10T07:00:40Z")
I’m not sure if this potential bug has been reported yet, but our events keep disappearing from the calendar after the events have concluded.
This happens despite us using the setting -1 for “delete expired event posts after” in the plugin settings.
Is this an error on our end or is the setting not working as intended?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044/2 "2023-11-10T07:25:06Z")
That particular setting is specific to the topic calendars rather than the Event feature. When you say they’re disappearing, do you mean from the `/upcoming-events` calendar?
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### Author:  [@JamesTheClarke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesTheClarke)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044/3 "2023-11-10T07:35:59Z")
Correct: [CNTO Forum](https://forum.cnto-arma.com/upcoming-events)
The only event shown is the upcoming event planned for next Tuesday, all past events are not visible.
Is there a different event calendar which would show them all and we just overlooked it?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044/4 "2023-11-10T07:59:13Z")
For the Events part of the plugin (which are included on the `/upcoming-events` calendar) past ones only stay visible if they don’t have an end date. It has been mentioned before that’d be good if there was an option to display them still ([Display old Events on the 'Upcoming Events' page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-to-the-upcoming-events-page/246634)), but currently it’s not possible.
And just for the extra info, the setting `delete expired event posts after` controls how long old calendar item posts are kept for on the topic calendars (you can see an example of one of those here - [Category Calendar demo topic - calendar - Discourse Demo](https://try.discourse.org/t/category-calendar-demo-topic/1461))
The settings specific for Events are on the second tab:
