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
    2024-11-13T23:00:23+00:00

    Mine magically started working today, I hope it stays that way. I did not do anything.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-13T23:07:19+00:00

    Well, it appears che alcuni pazzi a Microsoft giocano con l'applicazione.

    Yesterday, as a test, I tried to create two calendar entries. I encountered the "I can't do this please wait" message, and the calendar did not display either entry.

    Today, I revisited the calendar. The entries it said it could no display, and which it DID not display yesterday...are there.

    So I tried adding yet another entry. Now, rather than just creating the entry as it did in the past (at least on those occasions when it didn't break), it displays a similar but I not identical message "something went wrong" in red font, followed by "We couldn't save your calendar event. Waiting a bit might help. Keep your calendar event open to try again later." in black, followed by "Resume editing" in blue. Hovering anywhere in the dialog displays a hand (but of course nothing tells me what might happen if I clicked it, no url or anything).

    And (here's the big difference) clicking opens up a window (a large form) whose "title" appears to be my meeting title, with several data fields, I think the same as in the calendar entry form, PLUS a multi-row input field with a date and times. Looks like I can iterate over other dates. Also a new field, a place to add invitee email addresses. If I close the form wihtout adding any address...the form closes, and the "new entry" does NOT appear in Calendar. If I add an address and click send...the "Something went wrong...resume editing" notification appears again.

    It looks to me like some software "engineer" is playing around with this published application, trying to, I don't know, add features, fix it, whatever. It's out of control.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-14T00:02:36+00:00

    My Outlook failed, then about two days later started working again. My conclusion is that sitting around doing nothing fixes stuff.

    But then oops, it broke again after another two days, so doing nothing also breaks things.

    Post hoc, ergo propter hoc...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-14T06:45:10+00:00

    It appears that if one tries to edit a calendar entry posted under a hotmail account, this works. Trying to edit a calendar entry posted under a gmail account fails.

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