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=QnA Steps to reproduce: Open Outlook calendar, and open any appointment Put laptop to lock mode (windows key + L) Log in again Click the 'X' icon to close the appointment 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

It is dumbfounding how many people have this problem and how long it has persisted. There is not even an explanation as to what is causing it never mind the fix. What do I need to do to get attention on this? Fly a banner in the skies over Redmond, WA?

I think it's incredible this problem continuous. It's april 2024, it annoys me daily.

None of these solutions work. It does not make sense to me as to why clicking a meeting link wouldn't just be an action in view mode. I've also just left meeting invites open without clicking on links and I have to mark all items as save or discard changes. For meetings I'm just an attendee of, this really shouldn't be a thing and I don't want to clutter my drafts folder by auto saving these. This really just sounds like a poor system design.

I have to echo what Funk says here. Plus, this issue has been outstanding with every version of Outlook I've used for the last 15 years or more. Some quirk about "state change tracking" in either Windows or Outlook (or both) must be causing the problem. Either no one at Microsoft has been able to get to the root cause in 15 years or, more likely, the issue is so fundamentally deep in the code that changing it is either impossible or not worth the risk to other operations that depend upon the "state change tracking" functions.

outlook desktop and the OWA is terrible anymore, does nothing but freeze up my whole computer, was a great app, now it's trying to do to much all the time in the background. and not being able to drag and drop from mail is about as unproductive and big of a oversight as it gets. tells you theses MS engineer don't have that in mind. I'm sure it all works out nice with our phones though. the only thing MS techs seem concerned with anymore is how it functions on mobile. rather then bringing your whole company to a halt because a simple drag and drop no longer works and lcking on a mail makes outlook freeze up, jump all over like a transformer etc, it's just sad anymore with this new web wrapper. and i don't have time to go around on 500 diff computers/users and try these fixes that don't work.

Outlook asks to save when closing appointments without any change

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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:

Open Outlook calendar, and open any appointment
Put laptop to lock mode (windows key + L)
Log in again
Click the 'X' icon to close the appointment
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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2024-04-05T18:30:38+00:00

It is dumbfounding how many people have this problem and how long it has persisted. There is not even an explanation as to what is causing it never mind the fix.

What do I need to do to get attention on this? Fly a banner in the skies over Redmond, WA?
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2024-04-05T11:29:51+00:00

I think it's incredible this problem continuous. It's april 2024, it annoys me daily.
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2024-03-19T19:10:55+00:00

None of these solutions work. It does not make sense to me as to why clicking a meeting link wouldn't just be an action in view mode. I've also just left meeting invites open without clicking on links and I have to mark all items as save or discard changes.

For meetings I'm just an attendee of, this really shouldn't be a thing and I don't want to clutter my drafts folder by auto saving these. This really just sounds like a poor system design.
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2024-01-10T16:37:09+00:00

I have to echo what Funk says here. Plus, this issue has been outstanding with every version of Outlook I've used for the last 15 years or more.

Some quirk about "state change tracking" in either Windows or Outlook (or both) must be causing the problem.

Either no one at Microsoft has been able to get to the root cause in 15 years or, more likely, the issue is so fundamentally deep in the code that changing it is either impossible or not worth the risk to other operations that depend upon the "state change tracking" functions.
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2023-12-22T20:49:32+00:00

outlook desktop and the OWA is terrible anymore, does nothing but freeze up my whole computer, was a great app, now it's trying to do to much all the time in the background. and not being able to drag and drop from mail is about as unproductive and big of a oversight as it gets. tells you theses MS engineer don't have that in mind. I'm sure it all works out nice with our phones though. the only thing MS techs seem concerned with anymore is how it functions on mobile. rather then bringing your whole company to a halt because a simple drag and drop no longer works and lcking on a mail makes outlook freeze up, jump all over like a transformer etc, it's just sad anymore with this new web wrapper. and i don't have time to go around on 500 diff computers/users and try these fixes that don't work.
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