Outlook XP(2002) Cal: "Can't open this item"

[Guest]

Old laptop dead. Installed Office XP on new one. Moved outlook.pst to the
new one. All looked to be working well, except:
1. Many items were one hour earlier in the new Outlook
Now that I think about it, I think they were all recurring items. I reset
them all to the correct time.
2. The real problem: Trying to do anything with any recurring item
produces : "Can't open this item. The object is not valid"

Tried to delete them (I can by selecting it and hit Del) and recreate them.
But, ohmigosh, any newly created recurring item acts the same way. You can
create them, but they have this major quirk. You cannot move it, you cannot
open it, you cannot delete it by rt click...it just sits there and is
unmanageable.

This is an emergency (well of high order to me anyway). I have tons of
recurring appts and use them often. I'm not sure if the reminders on them
are operating or not. Please help.

 

[Guest]

I really need help with this. If anybody has any idea of a solution,
please post.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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After furious head scratching, movrshakr asked:

| I really need help with this. If anybody has any idea of a solution,
| please post.

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure what additional details you are asking for????

It is an Office XP install, which shows up in Calendar, Help-About as
Outlook 2002 (10.6822.6830)SP3. Is that what you need? Oh, the new computer
is Vista, but I answered that in all of the lead-in questions getting to
enter the post in the first place--so I thought that would appear with the
post (otherwise, why is it asked--rhetorical)!

I'll be happy to provide what ever other info you need. I'm desperate. I
did do an overall web search for the error phrase (no number is included in
the error response), to no avail. Really need help here. My Outlook
calendar is my life, and the old machine, on which it worked fine, is
unusable as a laptop (screen dead).