This really, really annoying bug started popping up for me not too long ago when a co-worker created some reoccurring event in outlook that I accepted as attending, and at some point she must have removed it incorrectly or something, because it would always come up as "Canceled:" but when I would try to dismiss or OK it... I would always get this error message prompt (every freakin' day!):
"Cannot turn off the reminder. You may be reminded again. Cannot locate recurrence information for this appointment"
Solutions:
1) /cleanreminders
First, try launching Outlook.exe with the “/cleanreminders” command line argument:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE /cleanreminders
2) Use Microsoft utility MFCMAPI manually remove the entry (not hard at all)
If solution 1 does not work
Download MFCMAPI tool from http://support.microsoft.com/?ID=291794
1. Run MFCMAPI on the desktop
2. Go to Session->Logon and Display Store Table
3. Select your profile by name
4. Right click Mailbox and choose “Open Store”
5. Expand “Root Container”
6. Find & Right click “Reminders” and select “Open Contents Table”
7. New Window Launches with list of Reminders
8. Select only the reminder items that you want to remove, Right click and select “Delete Message”
9. Close MFCMAPI
Restart outlook- you should not have those annoying reminders any more.
Posted on
Monday, September 28, 2009
by Sean P
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