Outlook asks to save when closing appointments without any change

Anonymous
2023-01-02T08:14:20+00:00

When I open any appointment in outlook Calendar I have to save it before closing if I have locked my PC in between. Even If I did not change anything (applies to any invite also empty freshly created ones and also applies when outlook is started in safe mode + also applies on different PC / different account)

[![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/20b86f9d-1cc2-4011-8f4d-a64e9f945f58?platform=QnASteps to reproduce:

  1. Open Outlook calendar, and open any appointment
  2. Put laptop to lock mode (windows key + L)
  3. Log in again
  4. Click the 'X' icon to close the appointment
  5. Outlook will pop up an alert box "Want to save your changes? Yes | No | Cancel " and the user has to select something.](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/20b86f9d-1cc2-4011-8f4d-a64e9f945f58?platform=QnA&fud_access=wJJIheezUklbAN2ppeDns8cDNpYs3nCYjgitr%2bfFBh2dqlqMuW7np3F6Utp%2fKMltnRRYFtVjOMO5tpbpW9UyRAwvLeec5emAPixgq9ta07Dgnp2aq5eJbnfd%2fU3qhn54gvgJwJvybOaDZLdxxWbmUU55lRVcs%2b2rsZqD5C%2f2ugIy6sqE3bmcGNiEPEvYKI16fklw5WYaFGrnASySzjzYPBMvt%2bVOvAQMf93S5Ko5apovha8xkf2t4FEpnnplUjx6vzNpK1AJ%2bm5J3PVtyfBv2Ngxo%2bKQEU%2b1bEbIrW6CGfvnpbcta1O6MDU7%2b9Ea77rcFd7uju0GTB3L41UvMQuArmQC6FPPSvSN6qLyVexBhQGTMqZUIG5uwLawp5kn016qCxHiiHVoGPOhOPlZjc2pXoVl6o5NdZl4BiPgXi2mF4g%3d "filestore.community.support.microsoft.com")

Disabling the weather information, scaling equal, new profile did not help for me, any idea how to solve this?

NOTE: There is still no solution / fix for this issue

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-30T14:57:17+00:00

    I cant believe how long this has been going on.

    Its very annoying and prevents clean closing of outlook.

    Maybe we should be asking copilot to help?

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-30T12:55:06+00:00

    All the Big tech companies are busy selling the AI snake oil now - when they can't develop basic software with good quality anymore. First, they fired all the QA roles in the companies and started relying on stupid automated tests alone. Then they started selling snake oil one after another - IOT, Surface, VR, AR, Big data and now AI - all useless, unrprofitable sht that no real people use by paying for them. Now they are onto these LLMs which are again unprofitable in billions. And who are the ones affected to the maximum ? The people and the companies who pay for using the traditional software like Windows, Office etc.

    But hey, there's no easy money for the CEOs that way - they need to fool the wall street and investors with ridiculous claims decade after decade to keep the gravy train moving - otherwise, how will the Scam Altmans become filthy rich within a decade ? No one cares about the paying customers for traditional software anymore. We need more competition to break this nonsense. Monopolies are breaking our world. Just look at the damages caused by the stupid security bug of the Crowdstrike/Windows fiasco.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-30T12:30:15+00:00

    Amen. This is very disruptive, especially in busy offices with multiple complex schedules, because you don't want to not save a change that was made on purpose before multiple interruptions, and you don't want to save a change made in error for the same reason, but the "event" might have been open for quite some time, making it difficult or impossible to know. Collectively we who use Outlook this way pay untold millions of dollars to do so, and yet this most basic function -- alerting you to save or delete changes when in fact none nearly all the time were made -- isn't fixed? Can't anyone figure this out? Maybe a summer intern assigned to the project? Come on, Microsoft.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-30T11:06:34+00:00

    It is ridiculous that Microsoft cannot fix this bug for so many years - why don't you give the option to override this popup ?

    I don't care if the messages are not saved. Just allow me to close the damn thing without annoying - god, this is beyond ridiculous.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-04-21T20:25:03+00:00

    Just kill outlook.exe until they give a solution.

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