Forced to use New Outlook wiped my entire calendar, can I get it back? Can the tray icon clock calendar be connected to New Outlook?

Anonymous
2024-02-06T10:52:02+00:00

For years I used the tray icon clock to open a calendar. It looked like this (except Save & More Details were not greyed out).

Clicking a date I could fill out "Add an event or reminder", add a time and location.

Jan 10 2024 "New Outlook" auto imposed itself. It insisted I give it an email address or it wouldn't play ball. I gave it my MS-account email (that happen to be an gmail account). I imagined Outlook would copy all the old calendar items. It didn't. New Outlook was blank.

I was going to start using Outlook before it forced me. Not because I wanted to but because it seemed, after searching for years, that is the only possible way to make a calendar backup.

I believe I clicked Add calendar --> edit my calendar (New Outlook) trying to find a way to make my calendar entries appear when suddenly all my calendar entries where gone. They never appeared in New Outlook and were gone from the tray icon clock as well.

I can add new entries to New Outlook and I noticed they appear in my gmail account (calendar) as well.

I've more or less given up retrieving my old calendar entries. Thankfully I don't really need them. Searching this community for tips I looked in New Outlook "Deleted items". It's empty.

Now the tray icon clock calendar isn't only empty, the "Save" and "More details" are both greyed out. Is there a way to restore the convenience of the old functionality. Meaning I can add items via the tray icon clock again? I also have a vague hope if this is restored all my old entries will reappear.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-01T10:11:35+00:00

    OneDrive by default saves all saved files and folders in the cloud with a copy or part thereof saved to your hard drive (in the OneDrive Folder). Often when folders disappear from your hard drive it's because the connection to the cloud is lost. I have experienced this a couple of times and resolved it by logging in and out of OneDrive. You can also access OneDrive files online by logging in to the following via your web browser. https://onedrive.live.com/login/

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-01T10:01:41+00:00

    Yes, the weblink is another way of accessing Outlook

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-01T08:04:08+00:00

    Thanks for that. Would you expect the web browser option to keep working after the old Outlook app has been fully withdrawn?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-31T19:21:34+00:00

    Yep... I had to get to my old calendar by doing the things as below. I then had to go through every freaking month and put everything into my Google calendar. Horrible! But, honestly, I'd do it and quickly! Don't lose all your calendar entries!!

    If like me your old calendar app entries do not appear in the new Outlook app calendar because that app does not support IMAP yet you can bypass the Outlook app and access your calendar by logging into https://outlook.live.com/ (or outlook.com) via a web browser (i.e. Edge, Firefox, Google) then navigating to Calendar.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-31T16:42:36+00:00

    I have tried several times to get the new Outlook working properly so that I can actually use it. The biggest problem is the calendar which is now gone! After reading online about this in MANY pages, it seems that everyone is having the same experience as I am having. With the final transition in December of this year, what the heck is Microsoft going to do to rectify this situation? I have been using this piece of software since its inception as my PIM and would lose ALL of the calendar entries that I have put in over decades of use.

    Upset,

                      Joe Smith

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