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
    2024-11-11T03:07:02+00:00

    mine either this is soooo annoying when ar they going to fix it

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-11T05:15:14+00:00

    I don't think it was stable, or even true multitasking, until NT, which I think would have been Windows 9. And Microsoft couldn't do it: “Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation led by Dave Cutler to build Windows NT…” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows\_NT

    Microsoft has never been interested in honing a product to perfection. Good enough is good enough, and it's on to the next big thing. In the last couple of years they probably spent way more on Aptos, the new font they forced on me, than on, say, giving office vba a decent editor.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-11T05:49:05+00:00

    I too have no issues adding or editing calendar appointment in outlook calendar on my Apple mobile only the Outlook Desktop calendar.

    I also identified today the issue for me is isolated to adding or editing calendar appointments associated to my gmail email address but works fine if I add or edit a calendar appointment associated with my business email account which was created via Wix.

    Not sure how that makes a difference and if that is similar to others?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-11T07:56:31+00:00

    iPhone and iPad work fine. I also have a gmail address connected to NEW Outlook which does not work.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-11T09:01:42+00:00

    It looks like MS is aware of this issue, and they provided a temporary solution here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/outlk_win-outtop_new-outsub_ofh/unable-to-save-new-calendar-events/320e37ee-5f71-44bb-8c20-25e22f4c77be?messageId=822dad3e-0c92-4fbc-81a2-8c2e47c31d7d

    Our team reproduced and found out the cause of the problem: When a third-party IMAP/POP email accounts, such as Gmail, Yahoo, is set as the primary account of the new Outlook, this problem of not being able to create calendar events will be triggered. However, only the primary account cannot create events, and other accounts in the application can create events normally. This problem does not occur for primary account of Microsoft domains (outlook.com, hotmail.com etc.).

    OSolution: Please add another mailbox that is not frequently used as the primary account, so that your current mailbox will be able to create calendar events normally. Click [Settings] - [Accounts] - [Manage] - [Set as primary account].

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