diff --git a/api/src/com/todoroo/astrid/data/Task.java b/api/src/com/todoroo/astrid/data/Task.java
index 02d7cfa14..cf0e4518d 100644
--- a/api/src/com/todoroo/astrid/data/Task.java
+++ b/api/src/com/todoroo/astrid/data/Task.java
@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ public final class Task extends RemoteModel {
     public static final StringProperty SHARED_WITH = new StringProperty(
             TABLE, "sharedWith");
 
-    /** Comment Count */
-    public static final IntegerProperty COMMENT_COUNT = new IntegerProperty(
-            TABLE, "commentCount");
-
     /** Last Sync date */
     public static final LongProperty LAST_SYNC = new LongProperty(
             TABLE, "lastSync");
diff --git a/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncService.java b/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncService.java
index cf2816a6c..da5090ec0 100644
--- a/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncService.java
+++ b/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncService.java
@@ -1567,8 +1567,6 @@ public final class ActFmSyncService {
             if(model.isModified())
                 model.setValue(Task.DETAILS, null);
 
-            model.setValue(Task.COMMENT_COUNT, json.getInt("comment_count"));
-
             JSONArray tags = json.getJSONArray("tags");
             for(int i = 0; i < tags.length(); i++) {
                 JSONObject tag = tags.getJSONObject(i);
diff --git a/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncV2Provider.java b/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncV2Provider.java
index cb727143c..76902bb91 100644
--- a/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncV2Provider.java
+++ b/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/actfm/sync/ActFmSyncV2Provider.java
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
-import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException;
-
 import com.timsu.astrid.C2DMReceiver;
 import com.timsu.astrid.R;
 import com.todoroo.andlib.data.AbstractModel;
@@ -361,12 +359,7 @@ public class ActFmSyncV2Provider extends SyncV2Provider {
                                 Task.REMOTE_ID.isNull()),
                                 Criterion.and(Task.REMOTE_ID.isNotNull(),
                                         Task.MODIFICATION_DATE.gt(Task.LAST_SYNC))));
-        try {
-            taskCursor = taskService.query(query);
-        } catch (SQLiteException e) {
-            database.handleNoCommentsColumn(e);
-            taskCursor = taskService.query(query);
-        }
+        taskCursor = taskService.query(query);
 
         try {
             pushQueued(callback, finisher, taskCursor, true, taskPusher);
diff --git a/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/backup/TasksXmlExporter.java b/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/backup/TasksXmlExporter.java
index e90ea77d7..f5d83b1f3 100644
--- a/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/backup/TasksXmlExporter.java
+++ b/astrid/plugin-src/com/todoroo/astrid/backup/TasksXmlExporter.java
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer;
 import android.app.Activity;
 import android.app.ProgressDialog;
 import android.content.Context;
-import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException;
 import android.os.Handler;
 import android.util.Log;
 import android.util.Xml;
@@ -180,14 +179,8 @@ public class TasksXmlExporter {
 
     private void serializeTasks() throws IOException {
         TodorooCursor<Task> cursor;
-        try {
-            cursor = taskService.query(Query.select(
+        cursor = taskService.query(Query.select(
                 Task.PROPERTIES).orderBy(Order.asc(Task.ID)));
-        } catch (SQLiteException e) {
-            PluginServices.getDatabase().handleNoCommentsColumn(e);
-            cursor = taskService.query(Query.select(
-                    Task.PROPERTIES).orderBy(Order.asc(Task.ID)));
-        }
         try {
             Task task = new Task();
             int length = cursor.getCount();
diff --git a/astrid/src/com/todoroo/astrid/dao/Database.java b/astrid/src/com/todoroo/astrid/dao/Database.java
index 840c31e7f..ca72d5758 100644
--- a/astrid/src/com/todoroo/astrid/dao/Database.java
+++ b/astrid/src/com/todoroo/astrid/dao/Database.java
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ public class Database extends AbstractDatabase {
             onCreateTables();
 
             Property<?>[] properties = new Property<?>[] { Task.REMOTE_ID,
-                    Task.USER_ID, Task.COMMENT_COUNT };
+                    Task.USER_ID };
 
             for(Property<?> property : properties) {
                 database.execSQL("ALTER TABLE " + Task.TABLE.name + " ADD " +
@@ -335,26 +335,6 @@ public class Database extends AbstractDatabase {
         return false;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Try to recover from an error that was getting thrown in several places.
-     * Seems a bad migration may have left some users without a comment count
-     * column in the tasks table
-     */
-    public void handleNoCommentsColumn(SQLiteException e) {
-        String message = e.getMessage().toLowerCase();
-        if (message.contains("no such column") && message.contains("tasks.commentCount")) {
-            try {
-                database.execSQL("ALTER TABLE " + Task.TABLE.name + " ADD " +
-                        Task.COMMENT_COUNT.accept(new SqlConstructorVisitor(), null) + " DEFAULT 0");
-            } catch (SQLiteException e2) {
-                // Rethrow the original exception so we know that some other unexpected error occurred
-                throw e;
-            }
-        } else {
-            throw e;
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      * Create table generation SQL
      * @param sql