All my Calendar items have dissappeared

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shezageek

Hello All,

I use outlook 2002 on windows xp home and noticed this morning that all of
my calendar is erased for some reason. Not sure what caused this. Could it
be the new year? I haven't loaded any new software or done anything unusual
so I am not sure what happened.
 
shezageek said:
Hello All,

I use outlook 2002 on windows xp home and noticed this morning that
all of my calendar is erased for some reason. Not sure what caused
this. Could it be the new year? I haven't loaded any new software or
done anything unusual so I am not sure what happened.
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Only calendar items? Nothing else? Is autoarchive enabled? Do you sync to a
handheld? Anything in your deleted items folder?
Do you make regular backups?
 
Yes, I use a pocket pc and a palm but those have been syncing for years with
no problems. I make regular backups with the pocket pc. I don't sync the
palm very often, but it does have the same information my pocket pc does
because it is set to receive only not sync- so I know it is not coming from
a device malfunction. My devices up until a day ago had my calendar intact
so the problem had to have come from the pc.For my devices to be missing the
calendar indicates the problem came from outlook being wiped out some how.

Nothing else is missing just calendar items. I have already looked in the
ususal places like deleted folder and there is nothing there. My device
syncs regularly and has encountered no problems. I do have auto archieve
enabled for some folders with prompt so I know when I archieve. I only
archieve a couple times a month and the last time I did my calendar was
still intact. My archieve folders show nothing of my missing calendar so it
is not there.

I have tried a system restore and that didn't work either. My husband thinks
it is a virus or hacker. I am scanning the computer with Norton now. Are
there other steps I can take to check for missing data other than I have
mentioned.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
shezageek said:
Yes, I use a pocket pc and a palm but those have been syncing for
years with no problems. I make regular backups with the pocket pc. I
don't sync the palm very often, but it does have the same information
my pocket pc does because it is set to receive only not sync- so I
know it is not coming from a device malfunction. My devices up until
a day ago had my calendar intact so the problem had to have come from
the pc.For my devices to be missing the calendar indicates the
problem came from outlook being wiped out some how.

Nothing else is missing just calendar items. I have already looked
in the ususal places like deleted folder and there is nothing there.
My device syncs regularly and has encountered no problems. I do have
auto archieve enabled for some folders with prompt so I know when I
archieve. I only archieve a couple times a month and the last time I
did my calendar was still intact. My archieve folders show nothing of
my missing calendar so it is not there.

I have tried a system restore and that didn't work either. My husband
thinks it is a virus or hacker. I am scanning the computer with
Norton now. Are there other steps I can take to check for missing
data other than I have mentioned.
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Extremely unlikely that it's either a hacker or even a virus. I still think
the most likely cause is your handheld syncs - I've never tried to run both
ActiveSync and Palm sync against the same data, but it sounds like
Activesync may be the issue. What version, and have you tried
microsoft.public.pocketpc? If the data is on the PocketPC backup, you may be
able to get it back.

You should make regular backups of your data - all of it - just in case this
sort of thing happens again.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Only calendar items? Nothing else? Is autoarchive enabled? Do you
sync to a
handheld? Anything in your deleted items folder?
Do you make regular backups?
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