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Oct 31, 2021

Microsoft To Do Tasks Disappeared

Hello, I used to have ~100 tasks in my To-Do application these days. As of yesterday, they have been reduced to ~50. Multiple tasks disappeared from various lists (the lists are all intact). ...

sierra_kirk

Copper Contributor

Oct 14, 2022

I had this same problem on my new phone today and found this thread when I was searching for solutions. Was disappointed to read posts spanning several years with no fixes. I resigned myself to re-creating my missing tasks. Thankfully, my computer version of the lists were full and complete - it was only my new phone that had lost some tasks from several lists. I spent time emailing my full lists from my computer to myself thinking I could copy and paste the missing tasks one by one. After adding the first missing task back on to a list on my phone, I suddenly realised that list was now full and complete - and my added task was now in twice! I went to each of the lists that were missing tasks and just added a dummy new task (random letters) and found that once I added a new item, the list updated itself with all of the missing tasks too! Not sure why it wouldn't sync without me adding another task. Anyway, I thought I should share this unexpected fix in case it helps anyone else.

xlle6
Copper Contributor
Oct 30, 2022
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Abcwick
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Oct 16, 2022
sierra_kirk Just registered to be able to say THANK YOU ever so much for your post. Also got a new phone on Friday, and exactly the same thing happened - To Do was only showing a handful of tasks in each list on the new phone, and strangely the same in the 365 webapp via Office 365, but desktop app on windows and still syncing To Do on old phone both still showed the full list (which I had also hurriedly emailed to myself as a back-up). Adding a dummy task back to each list worked brilliantly - resolved the issue by then prompting a reinstatement of all missing tasks in that list on new phone and the online webapp, so that after adding one dummy task to each list all tasks had been restored back to the full complement, matching my old phone and desktop app.