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"There was a problem reading one or more of your reminders . . ."

Asked by: phlatulence

Every time that I start Outlook 2003 / XP Home I receive the following message:

"There was a problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders may not appear. Cannot locate recurrence information for this appointment."

I have uninstalled / reinstalled Outlook 2003, it didn't work.

Thanks,

Phlatulence

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Answers

 

by: cheddar72Posted on 2005-06-16 at 16:46:36ID: 14236477

It sounds to me like you have a corrupt meeting in your calendar.  Specificly with a reoccuring meeting.

 

by: phlatulencePosted on 2005-06-16 at 16:52:56ID: 14236508

But since the meeting and all recurrences have been deleted, how can I fix it?

 

by: SeanConnollyPosted on 2005-06-17 at 00:29:50ID: 14238194

It's probably worth running scanpst against your .PST file to ensure it's ok.  The details can be found here:

http://www.slipstick.com/problems/scanpst.htm

 

by: phlatulencePosted on 2005-06-17 at 05:02:02ID: 14239707

I saw that suggestion elsewhere as well, but I don't have scanpst.exe on my system! Do you know where I can download a FREE copy?

 

by: SeanConnollyPosted on 2005-06-17 at 06:38:12ID: 14240625

You can download it from here:

http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/outlook/repair.html

Look for the link in the seventh paragraph.

 

by: travalPosted on 2005-06-17 at 10:17:09ID: 14243108

You can first try starting Outlook with the "clean reminders" switch (START->RUN->"outlook.exe /cleanreminders" {w/o quotes})

If that doesn't help then your PST file or Profile is corrupt.  Create a new profile, and import the data from the old PST file:
How to create a new e-mail profile in Outlook 2003 (829918)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;829918

 

by: phlatulencePosted on 2005-07-18 at 14:36:18ID: 14470581

No satisfactory solution given. Please close and refund points

 

by: fabricedeparisPosted on 2005-08-03 at 15:52:33ID: 14593978


Read on Mcse :

  Re: Re: problem with reminders

Go to  the claendar and on the view menu point to Current View and cl
ick recurring appointments. Then do the following:
1) Selcet all and copy
2) open an email and paste all the reoccuring appointments into the email an
d send them to yourself.
3) Go back to the calender and reselct all the reoccuring appointments and d
elete them (I know this sounds scarey, I had over 500 for mine when I sdid t
his)
4) Close outlook and then reopen
the error should have gone away, if it did not you did nto delte all of them
5) Open the email and selcet all the attached appointments, speed it up by s
leecting the first and hold the shift key while selecting the last.
6) Drag them to the calender you wish them to be in

SHould be resolved.
____________________

Hope it works for you, worked for me.

 
 

 

by: hectorgpPosted on 2005-11-07 at 08:04:11ID: 15239820

this worked for me Thanks

 

by: jab56Posted on 2005-11-09 at 17:36:56ID: 15262237

fabricedeparis, worked for me also... thank you

 

by: d_abauerPosted on 2008-11-11 at 17:58:21ID: 22936264

It appears after creating a new profile and importing the data that I no longer am receiving the error message.

 

by: viridorwastePosted on 2009-03-23 at 04:05:19ID: 23956295

Thanks fabricedeparis - worked a treat :)

 

by: MikeHulleyPosted on 2009-05-15 at 09:16:15ID: 24397367

This place rocks.  Thanks fabricedeparis.  Your solution worked like a charm.
I am fixing an attorneys laptop - you know how lawyers can get - all the reminders/reocuurences are back.  They are going to love me!!

 

by: BocaPharmacalPosted on 2011-10-13 at 06:33:10ID: 36962077

We have the same issue.  This is causes by the CRM Outlook client.

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