Outlook calendar invitation shows up in Deleted Items with 12/31/1974 date – occurs hundreds of times per day (Google Calendar Sync) February 19, 2010
Posted by Aurelius in General, outlook 2007.Tags: 12/31/1974, calendar, deleted items, google calendar sync, outlook 2007, past calendar entry, repeated calendar entries
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That’s a long post title, but I wasn’t sure how to briefly state the problem. Here’s a summary of symptoms you may have:
- You have Google Calendar Sync installed
- You use Outlook and sync Outlook with Google Calendar
- In Outlook, you notice under “Deleted Items” there are hundreds of entries for the same Calendar Event, or Calendar Invitation
- In my case, the date was always 12/31/1974
- It possibly causes slow-down in accessing your Outlook calendar
I do not have a guaranteed fix for this, I can just tell you what worked for me. What seems to be occurring is there is an outstanding invitation in Google Calendar, and for some reason it pops into Outlook over and over.
Here is the fix that worked for me:
1. Find the title of the entry that occurs over-and-over (in your Outlook Deleted Items)
2. Go to your Google Calendar, and search for the title of the entry (or part of the title). In my case, it found an invitation with a Question Mark (?) indicating that I had not replied
3. DELETE the offending calendar entry in Google Calendar, so there is nothing left in Google Calendar about that particular event
4. Permanently delete all the entries in Outlook Deleted Items
5. Force another Google Calendar Sync, and see if that resolves the issue
Worked for me…let me know if it solves your problem!
Fix for Outlook error “Cannot create file: message.wav. Right-click the folder you want to create the file in, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu to check your permissions for the folder.” February 16, 2010
Posted by Aurelius in General, outlook 2007.Tags: .wav, cannot create file, outlook, outlook 2007, outlook error, voicemail
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All of my voicemails go into my Outlook email. Every once in a while I receive this error, shown below. This occurs because Outlook saves all the voicemails to a temporary folder in your system. All the files have the same name with a number after it: (I.e.: “voicemail (1).wav”). Once it reaches a certain number–100, to be exact–it can’t save any more so it throws an error.
Here is a screenshot of the error:
The fix is fairly straightforward. You need to find the folder Outlook stores those files in, then delete the messages.
1. To find the folder, open up Registry Editor (RegEdit.exe). Navigate to this path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security
[NOTE: The number 12.0 may vary with your version of Outlook]
2. Once you find the path, you’re looking for a section called “OutlookSecureTempFolder”
3. Double-click OutlookSecureTempFolder, and then highlight the path under “Value data” and copy it by pressing Ctrl-C on your keyboard. You can now click “Cancel” because you don’t want to edit anything.
4. Now, go to My Computer or Windows Explorer, and paste that path into the title bar.
5. You will now see a folder full of all your temporary files. Find the appropriate Voicemail messages and delete them all.
You will now be good for another 100 messages.
Thanks to this post for sending me in the right direction: http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2007/08/cant-create-file-outlook-error-and-a-the-fix/
