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Old May 12th, 2008, 09:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring
JGT
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Default Reappearing recurring meetings

Sorry to be so slow in responding but I'm going through hell trying to post
to the MS community websites. Most often when I click on the reply button,
the screen will refresh and I do NOT see the window where I can type my post.
I'm have this problem on three different computers (another problem,
eeeeeeeee).

I saw your previous post about deleting the entries and have done this MANY
times. Within a couple of hours the entry will start reappearing. If I do
nothing after a few days I will have several reoucrrances of the same entry.
The other day when I deleted I had about 70 repeats of the same entry that
I've deleted numerous times.

Regarding your suggestion " I may suggest (not sure if you've already knew
or tried this), select the Calendar, goto View, Arrange By, Category.
Organize them by date or topic and find the offending ones. " Yes this is
what I have done many times but after a few hours (2-3) it reappears and will
continue to add itself again and again and again.

I currenlty have two meetings that I have deleted numerous times and they
continue to come back and add itself over and over. One meeting was for five
consecutive days (Monday through Friday from 0800 to 1500 hours). I use the
24 hour clock. I created the entry and I copied one other person on the
entry. The second meeting is very similar and the only difference it is for
four consecutive Saturdays.

If you want I'd be willing to copy you on the entry and possibly you can see
something that I cannot. Or if you want I can capture any images or system
states you want, I just need detail instructions. I can either send you the
info you need or create an ID on my FTP server.

Other than the entries are still in the future (5/19-523 and 7/12-8-2) and I
continue to see them. This is anoying I'm concerned that if I don't remove
them from Outlook at some point I will have some super large number of
entries for these two appointments and Outlook will hit some darn limit and
crash.

"Ace Fekay [MVP]" wrote:

I did mention in one of my posts in this thread that may help to delete them
by changing the Calendar's view options.

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But the recurring ones can be tricky to sleuth out. I may suggest (not sure
if you've already knew or tried this), select the Calendar, goto View,
Arrange By, Category. Organize them by date or topic and find the offending
ones. They're listed as one item, meaning a recurring meeting is listed as
one item with a start and stop date. Just delete it and put the View back to
Day/Week/Month. I also use this view to help folks delete large attachments
in meetings, which go against their mailbox limits. You would need to add
the Size field to get that.
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The part I mentioned about a recurring meeting is listed as one item with a
start/stop date, this means that if the meeting recurs from now to eternity,
there will only be ONE entry. Simply delete it. I've found this useful
deleting recurring meetings our users can't seem to find the source (besides
if there are delegates, etc).

I hope you find this helpful.

Ace