I have Outlook 2000 and recently opened one of my contacts to see a birthday. Much to my surprise, when I double clicked the icon in the lower pane I got a message.....The item can no longer be found. It may have been moved or deleted. When I go to my calendar to see the events there is nothing there. How can I retrieve this info. Thanks in advance for any help.

If you click the Details tab on the Contact form, is the birthday still
listed in the Birthday field? If so, then only the association between the
data in that field and the calendar item that was originally created has
been lost. If you only have one of these to worry about, you can probably
delete the old shortcut from the General tab, delete the info in the
Birthday field (don't forget what it is, though :-) ), save the contact,
then reenter the birthday info and save the contact again -- that should
create a new shortcut on the General tab and also put the Calendar item
back.

If, on the other hand, you find that a lot of your contacts have the same
issue (which may have occurred if these items were imported from another
file at some point), there is a 3rd party add-in that can help you fix these
associations on a wider scale with less effort on your part. See
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/rspacc.htm for details.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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In news:395AA26F-7DF0-4627-9AD9-(E-Mail Removed),
JimK wrote:

> I have Outlook 2000 and recently opened one of my contacts to see a
> birthday. Much to my surprise, when I double clicked the icon in the
> lower pane I got a message.....The item can no longer be found. It
> may have been moved or deleted. When I go to my calendar to see the
> events there is nothing there. How can I retrieve this info. Thanks
> in advance for any help.

Thanks for your help. I ordered the event association program. We'll see how it works. As you suspected...I lost about 1400 contact dates. I'll let you know how it turns out. Jim King

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> If you click the Details tab on the Contact form, is the birthday still
> listed in the Birthday field? If so, then only the association between the
> data in that field and the calendar item that was originally created has
> been lost. If you only have one of these to worry about, you can probably
> delete the old shortcut from the General tab, delete the info in the
> Birthday field (don't forget what it is, though :-) ), save the contact,
> then reenter the birthday info and save the contact again -- that should
> create a new shortcut on the General tab and also put the Calendar item
> back.
>
> If, on the other hand, you find that a lot of your contacts have the same
> issue (which may have occurred if these items were imported from another
> file at some point), there is a 3rd party add-in that can help you fix these
> associations on a wider scale with less effort on your part. See
> http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/rspacc.htm for details.
>
> --
> Jocelyn Fiorello
> MVP - Outlook
>
> *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
> reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***
>
>
> In news:395AA26F-7DF0-4627-9AD9-(E-Mail Removed),
> JimK wrote:
>
> > I have Outlook 2000 and recently opened one of my contacts to see a
> > birthday. Much to my surprise, when I double clicked the icon in the
> > lower pane I got a message.....The item can no longer be found. It
> > may have been moved or deleted. When I go to my calendar to see the
> > events there is nothing there. How can I retrieve this info. Thanks
> > in advance for any help.
>
>
>

I note that it seems to be a random problem, i.e. the
importing of the .pst file does not always render the
calendar items inoperable - it is a Microsoft problem yet
they are not offering a fix for this situation - would
that be a fair assessment?

Why should we have to pay for additional software to fix
a 'glitch' in the software which we are already paying for?


>-----Original Message-----
>If you click the Details tab on the Contact form, is the
birthday still
>listed in the Birthday field? If so, then only the
association between the
>data in that field and the calendar item that was
originally created has
>been lost. If you only have one of these to worry about,
you can probably
>delete the old shortcut from the General tab, delete the
info in the
>Birthday field (don't forget what it is, though :-) ),
save the contact,
>then reenter the birthday info and save the contact
again -- that should
>create a new shortcut on the General tab and also put the
Calendar item
>back.
>
>If, on the other hand, you find that a lot of your
contacts have the same
>issue (which may have occurred if these items were
imported from another
>file at some point), there is a 3rd party add-in that can
help you fix these
>associations on a wider scale with less effort on your
part. See
>http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/rspacc.htm for details.
>
>--
>Jocelyn Fiorello
>MVP - Outlook
>
>*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be
answered -- please
>reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
thread. ***
>
>
>In news:395AA26F-7DF0-4627-9AD9-
(E-Mail Removed),
>JimK wrote:
>
>> I have Outlook 2000 and recently opened one of my
contacts to see a
>> birthday. Much to my surprise, when I double clicked
the icon in the
>> lower pane I got a message.....The item can no longer
be found. It
>> may have been moved or deleted. When I go to my
calendar to see the
>> events there is nothing there. How can I retrieve this
info. Thanks
>> in advance for any help.
>
>
>.
>