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
    2023-07-26T16:03:35+00:00

    The file/ meeting is different after unlocking.

    I copied a meeting file to my desktop, then made a copy, both the same size.

    Opened and closed both files - same size

    Opened the copy, locked the desktop, after unlocking it behaved the same way (asked me to save)

    I saved the file and compared - it's different, but why

    Aside from the size, I tried to check the content but it's unreadable. Notepad++ does identify the difference though with the Compare plug-in

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-31T12:21:43+00:00

    Same issue here. Extremely annoying.

    Please provide a fix.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-02T14:28:53+00:00

    Having to click want to save your changes to any meeting invite where you click on the url in the body of the invite is absolutely INSANE.

    When i have several invites up and then try to close outlook, being asked 5-6 times to save changes to an invite you REALLY did not make changes to is extremely frustrating and unproductive.

    We NEED THIS FIXED

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-08T08:43:45+00:00

    Thanks SeanValli, I tried the same or similar - saving an appointment using "Save As". Then do the lock/unlock cycle, and again "Save As". The resulting second file is different but from what I can tell it will always be different because it saves creation/modification timestamps inside the calender item.

    For example when saving as .ics format, the file is plain text and the ics fields CREATED, DTSTAMP, and LAST-MODIFIED differ. But this is a result of saving the file at a different time and is to be expected.

    When saving as binary .msg format I suspect that such fields are also included in a binary encoding so it becomes difficult to see what is really changed.

    So it's clear that the lock/unlock cycle changes the open appointment in some way, but we can't see yet what is really changed or why.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-10T19:51:23+00:00

    Yes, I spend so much time closing all my email invites, please fix it!

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