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
    2025-01-19T12:44:07+00:00

    This started happening to me during January, and after reading this thread and a bit of experimentation, it seems that some idiot at Microsoft has decided to use the NAME of the calendar entry as some form of index.

    If I create any event with the same name as another event (including using the usually helpful 'Duplicate Event' option) the event is created, but then can't be edited - giving the same 'can't save' or 'something went wrong' modern/useless error message.

    If I create a new event with a slightly different name (I've just started adding (1), (2), etc. to the end of all my regular events :| ) it seems to work.

    If others could give that a try and see what they think, it might help Microsoft's obviously incompetent developers get somewhere with this...

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-08T16:10:24+00:00

    Is someone from Microsoft reading all these responses and addressing it in some way - it would be good to hear from them

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-08T11:50:31+00:00

    Using New outlook and since yesterday I experience the same issue.

    When can we expect a fix for this?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-22T14:44:10+00:00

    Same issue here -- any changes I make to events won't save to a Google Calendar. New problem that started a month or so ago.

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