Friday, September 10, 2010

Repair Microsoft Outlook having Reminder problems

Many of us use Microsoft Outlook for managing emails, Tasks, Appointments, Reminders and much more purposes. One of our user had a problem with Outlook reporting that
"There was a problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders may not appear. Cannot locate recurrance information for the appointment. "
In this case, you may be unable to retrieve old reminders, neither create new. Outlook will also not remind you of any task/appointment, etc. In other words, Outlook completely forgets our reminders. It may also not allow to create a reminder.

This may be caused due to some reminders have been corrupted due to some unknown reason.

Solution:
Try running the command "outlook /cleanreminders" in the following way : Click on Start menu, then on Run command, or directly press Windows Flag key and R key simultaneously to bring the run dialog. type the command "outlook /cleanreminders" without quotes and hit enter or click on OK. Your reminder problem may be solved now.

Another cause is that you may have more than one data files connected to your Outlook, and one of them may have been listed twice, or may have been corrupted. To resolve this you may try removing other data files that are not default. During this process you may be cautious not to loose data. You should not proceed if you don't have backup. And it should be performed by experienced technical persons only.

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