Annoying Error message - Problem reading reminders

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DKearsley

I have started getting an error message when I open Outlook. It says:
"There was a problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders
may not appear. Cannot locate recurrence info for this appointment."

I can click OK and it goes away, but do not know how to resolve. Any help?
 
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BillR [MVP]

Try starting Outlook once with the /cleanreminders switch added.
For details on how to use this switch search in Help for "command-line
switches".
 
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DKearsley

BillR - thank you for the reply

I have done the /cleanreminders per the "command-line switches". The
orginal message I was getting is now gone, but Outlook says it is unable to
display reminders (expected). But how do I restore that Outlook will display
reminders?

Dkearsley
 
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BillR [MVP]

do new reminders work?

DKearsley said:
BillR - thank you for the reply

I have done the /cleanreminders per the "command-line switches". The
orginal message I was getting is now gone, but Outlook says it is unable
to
display reminders (expected). But how do I restore that Outlook will
display
reminders?

Dkearsley
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DKearsley

No - no reminders work in Outlook.

Upon start up of MS outlook, it will load, but then a message at the bottom
of the screen will pop-up to say:

Microsfot Office outlook (header title)
Cannot start the reminder service. Unable to show reminders.
 
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Martin C via OfficeKB.com

I just had this problem with Outlook 2003, the /cleanreminders did not work.
I was using an exchange server and found that outlook 2000 worked fine so i
wrote down all the reminders which had alerts.

I then looked these up using the find option in outlook 2003, note you have
to use the find option as the problem ones dont appear in the calendar.
In the find search results double click on the appointment you were
searching on and if you get an error well thats your problem appointment.

I then went back to outlook 2000 located that appointment and open the
series. I changed the time and set it forward by 30 minutes and also set
the status flag to free (as the items were set to busy which clashed with
other ones) i dont think you have to set it to free but im just letting you
know what i did.

Saved the occurence then that seemed to fix the problem.

Hope this helps just out of interest please let me know how you go....
[email protected]

martin
 
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Bill B (Laredo)

This worked wonderfully(!):
Do a search (I knew that the problem appointments had been added in the last
30 day, so I performed an advanced search limiting the creation time to 30
days and looking for any appointments with recurrence. Then when I tried to
open the appointments from the serach results, the bad ones would not open
and gave me some pop up message. To delete the offending appts., I simply
hit the delete key while it (the evil appt) was highlighted. Magic: the bad
recurrence and the appointment disappeared. I did not have to copy back and
forth to any other old copy, just used the delete key! Thank you Martin C
for the great lead on this problem!!!
 
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