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Kiril
Nov 10, 2021Steel Contributor
Change reminder time of all automatically generated birthday events in the Birthdays calendar
When I create a contact in Outlook and add a birthday to that contact, a new event is created in the special Birthdays calendar. This is great and it works fine. The reminder for those birthdays howe...
Kiril
Nov 10, 2021Steel Contributor
Victor_Ivanidze When I open a birthday event in the special Birthday calendar generated by Outlook/Exchange (not my personal calendar), then all the entries are read-only:
EDIT: Interesting, when I try it online I can edit the Birthday calendar. But when I do it in the desktop Outlook client then it doesn't work. However, I am still stuck in doing it manually for all birthday events.
Michaelvanroxel
Mar 10, 2023Copper Contributor
Hi Kiril , have you managed to find a solution to this?
I would also like to receive the birthday notification the day of.
- G3orgiosJul 22, 2024Copper Contributor
KirilJustin_Martinet al,
On desktop Outlook, editing the birthday calendar most usually creates a "you cannot make changes to the contents of this read-only folder" error. To cure this, you should reconfigure your desktop Outlook to use Online mode instead of Cache mode (File, Accounts, select the account that contains your birthday-calendar, uncheck the "Use Cached Exchange Mode to download emails to an Outlook data file"). An Outlook restart will be needed and after this you'll be finally able to edit/delete any records of the Birthday Calendar! [Reference: https://www.o-xchange.com/2014/01/you-cannot-make-changes-to-contents-of.html]
If someone has any update on HOW to change the default 1080minutes Birthdays reminder, would be great! - Justin_MartinNov 04, 2023Copper Contributor
KirilYeah, that seems to still be the case. It's massively painful, I have *hundreds* of birthdays saved and I often miss them because I have to dismiss the reminder on my mobile device the day before and then forget on the actual day because there's no reminder.
- KirilMar 10, 2023Steel Contributor
No, unfortunately not. But I haven't followed up on the issue in the last two years. Back then the only solution was a manual updates of the birthday events.