Edits to Calendar Events can't be Saved

Anonymous
2024-03-12T19:39:12+00:00

About a month ago, I started having an issue with saving edited calendar events on a shared calendar that I manage. When I go into an existing Event and edit information such as the date, time, title, or other information and hit "SEND", I get a pop-up saying, "Something went wrong", that "We couldn't save your calendar event. Waiting a bit might help. Keep your calendar event open to try again later." (image of this pop-up is attached).

I have tried to "resume editing", and of course, have waited with the event open, but it still won't save. It seems like this is an issue many others are experiencing as well. Solutions I have seen on other threads include turning off weather displays on the calendar, clearing your cache, and using the app instead of a browser. I have tried all of these things, but nothing has solved this problem. I manage many regular calendar events, and it is a huge hassle to have to delete an original event and replicate it over again from scratch when it only needs a small update, and everyone invited to the event sees the cancellations and re-invitations and becomes confused.

Are there any other solutions that might help? Any updates soon? Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-09T16:11:54+00:00

    I am so sick and tired of "new" outlook stumbling and bumbling. Yesterday I had this problem (We couldn't save...waiting might help...") for about 6 hours, to the end of my work day. Microsoft testing and fixing products before release into the wild might help too. This is hardly the only bug.

    I not only killed and restarted outlook, but rebooted the computer.

    Why does it give us such a lame "diagnosis" of the problem?

    This stuff coming from a near monopoly that is spending literally billions on AI, launching "AI" products that make hard-to-find errors at a prodigious rate (I look at Googles "AI summary" and find errors in most; ok, not MS, but the same sorts of algorithms), should stop. Spend some money fixing all the annoyances spattered throughout MS Products. Here's one: the real-estate hog that is the Search "feature" in Word; free editors (NP++) have searchers with better design and more useful features

    But it's not going to happen; MS discovered long ago that sizzle sells better than steak.

    This morning I woke up my computer. At least one of the calendar items i had tried to save multiple times WAS THERE. So the thing saved it, but maybe didn't realize it.

    Were getting screwed over by these people, and its going go get worse with the diminution or elimination of government oversight looming in our future. Monopsony power will increase (note to spellchecker: monopsony is a real word).

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-09T17:04:17+00:00

    I'm trying to help my uncle who has the problem since last Wednesday November 6th. He is using a local calendar in new Outlook, and since then he suddenly can't make any changes in that calendar. Changing to classic Outlook has the effect that his calendar is empty, so I will follow this thread and hope for a solution.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-09T17:05:45+00:00

    Same thing happened to me. It happens on multiple computers and multiple accounts including gmail outlook.com and comcast. The only thing they have in common is the program, got to be a bug!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-10T13:04:15+00:00

    Also having the same issue! Hope this gets fixed soon, switching from classic to the new outlook didn't do anything or re-adding accounts/reinstalling outlook.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-10T16:22:13+00:00

    Do we have to raise a ticket for this given the number of people it is affecting or is someone from MS monitoring this thread?

    Paul

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