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Title: Outlook ?
Post by: Vagrant on June 05, 2019, 09:07:10 AM

I'm as ticked as I can get. for the third time in two years microsoft outlook that I use for email has lost most of my calendar. their stuff is still there (holidays etc) and an airline ticket evidently downloaded by them is there but only one of the things I added is. I have done nothing abnormal that I know of nor have I downloaded anything.
Is there any way to recoup the info.

Title: Re: Outlook ?
Post by: Wayne Orwig on June 05, 2019, 09:30:25 AM

Outlook.com online?
Outlook on a personal data (PST) file.
Or Outlook on a corporate account?

Oulook.com online usually keeps an archive for a few days of anything that is deleted.
Outlook on a personal PST file relies on you to keep backups. But anything deleted should go to the deleted folder.
A corporate account should go to the deleted folder, or IT may be able to recover something that is lost.

And try 'reset view' in case something has just filtered it out.

Title: Re: Outlook ?
Post by: Vagrant on June 05, 2019, 09:48:19 AM

As normal when talking about computers I'm lost. It's eventently not outlook i just assumed it was because the reminders come up on my PC's outlook.com email. . it's actually the calendar that comes with windows 8.1. little blue box thingy at the bottom left side.

Title: Re: Outlook ?
Post by: Vagrant on June 05, 2019, 09:49:46 AM

any chance doing a PC recovery might work?

Title: Re: Outlook ?
Post by: Old Jock on June 05, 2019, 09:57:52 AM

I'd be very careful as the data could well be there and you could lose it in trying to retrieve it

I'd do some Googling to see if you can find where the data is stored in your mail application, it has to be somewhere possibly in Users\"Your Name"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\"Whatever the name of the program is"

Personally I dislike Microsofts packages and I run Mozzila Thunderbird which, for me anyway, has been rocksolid. It includes a calender and tasks too and is (Guzzi affiliated) FREE

John

Title: Re: Outlook ?
Post by: Wayne Orwig on June 05, 2019, 09:57:58 AM

Quote from: Vagrant on June 05, 2019, 09:48:19 AM

it's actually the calendar that comes with windows 8.1. little blue box thingy at the bottom left side.

Have you tried logging into outlook.com online, to see if your items are synced online to that calendar?
Not sure what a blue box thing is. The 8.1 calendar I guess

Title: Re: Outlook ?
Post by: Vagrant on June 05, 2019, 10:56:59 AM

yes and yes. I even shut it down and restarted.