Calendar info disappeared

[Tim Mathews]

For some reason, my calendar information disappeared during a sync with my
pda so neither my desktop nor my pocket pc has my appointments for the rest
of the year. I have a "calendar (2)" which still has all the information
but I can't find any way to copy that information over to Calendar so I
thought, perhaps, I should just close Outlook, find the file locations and
delete the calendar but I can't find this information via the desktop search
and just right clicking the calendar doesn't allow one to remove it as one
can with any copies or archived copies.

Is there a way to either delete the calendar file and rename the calendar
(2) to become my calendar file or copy the data from one to the other?

Also, is there any kind of known bug which causes this to happen--meaning
the sudden loss of all the data--when one syncs the Outlook calendar,
contacts and mail with a pda? I've never heard of this happening and don't
recall it ever happening in the five or six years I've been using pda's.

Thanks,
Tim

 

[Brian Tillman]

For some reason, my calendar information disappeared during a sync
with my pda so neither my desktop nor my pocket pc has my
appointments for the rest of the year. I have a "calendar (2)" which
still has all the information but I can't find any way to copy that
information over to Calendar so I thought, perhaps, I should just
close Outlook, find the file locations and delete the calendar but I
can't find this information via the desktop search and just right
clicking the calendar doesn't allow one to remove it as one can with
any copies or archived copies.

Did you accidentally create a new PST? If the other folders have your data,
probably not. If Calendar(2) is at the same level as Calendar, probably
not.

When you create a new event, in which calednar does it get stored when you
click Save and Close? That's the default calendar. Try starting Outlook
once with the /resetfolders and /resetfoldernames command switches. You can
also open the calendar that appears to not be your default, display it as a
table with the By Categorey view, select all the items with Ctrl-A, then
copy them all to the other calendar with Edit>Copy to Folder. When done,
try to delete the extra folder.

 

[Tim Mathews]

Did you accidentally create a new PST? If the other folders have your
data, probably not. If Calendar(2) is at the same level as Calendar,
probably not.

When you create a new event, in which calednar does it get stored when you
click Save and Close? That's the default calendar. Try starting Outlook
once with the /resetfolders and /resetfoldernames command switches. You
can also open the calendar that appears to not be your default, display it
as a table with the By Categorey view, select all the items with Ctrl-A,
then copy them all to the other calendar with Edit>Copy to Folder. When
done, try to delete the extra folder.

Fantastic...worked like a charm.
Many thanks