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Lost Two Years Of Outlook Calendar Files
LOST MY OUTLOOK FILES Please help me, I've lost two years of my Outlook Calendar files, and my Contact files also are gone; although, they now are found in a new I Cloud file that is set up inside ...
Hi Carl,
Sorry to hear that your files have been lost. If the files are still in your iCloud then you can re-sync it with your outlook.
You need to make sure each of your iCloud email subfolders are properly synced in Outlook for Mac for them to show up. Here’s how you do that:
On the top bar of Outlook for Mac, click on the “Tools” dropdown.
Click on “IMAP Folders.”
There, you’ll see all of your iCloud email folders, including the ones that are missing in your email display.
Click on each folder that you want to re-sync and then click on the green ‘Subscribe’ button on the top left. As soon as your subscribe a particular folder, the name turns bold.
Hope this helps!
Sorry to hear that your files have been lost. If the files are still in your iCloud then you can re-sync it with your outlook.
You need to make sure each of your iCloud email subfolders are properly synced in Outlook for Mac for them to show up. Here’s how you do that:
On the top bar of Outlook for Mac, click on the “Tools” dropdown.
Click on “IMAP Folders.”
There, you’ll see all of your iCloud email folders, including the ones that are missing in your email display.
Click on each folder that you want to re-sync and then click on the green ‘Subscribe’ button on the top left. As soon as your subscribe a particular folder, the name turns bold.
Hope this helps!
HumairDawood
Thank you for trying to help me. I'm not sure if you fully understood the problem, from your help suggestion. I don't have a Mac; I have a Hewlett Packard All In One Desktop. The files I'm missing were in my Outlook App installed on my HP Desktop. When the offer to synch I Cloud with Outlook popped up on my HP Desktop Outlook App, to the best of my knowledge I didn't even have I Cloud on my computer. I do have an I Cloud account on my Apple Phone, but I don't own an Apple computer. I've logged into I Cloud on my HP in the past, but I don't use any of its available functions like calendar or contacts etc. Maybe my I Phone communicated somehow with my HP Computer and offered to synch with it. I have no clue.
All I know is I clicked to agree to synch I Cloud with my Outlook App on my HP computer, and that is when for the first time ever any I Cloud folders appeared inside of Outlook. They were Contact Folders, and all of my Outlook Contact files were now deleted from the Outlook folder in the App and appeared in the new I Cloud Contact folders that newly appeared in my Outlook.
My biggest problem is not the contacts, since I can see them in the I Cloud folders. In fact I clicked on most of them and moved them back into Outlook folders. The problem is that almost a two year period of files in my Outlook App Calendar folders are now gone and appear no where that I can see. They no longer appear and can't therefore be opened in the Outlook Calendar which I have used for all of my work. They are gone from about January 2020 through November of 2021. So strange is all of the other months for years before January 2020 and after October 31, 2021 are still there. All of the Contact files had been moved from Outlook to I Cloud, but only a period of almost two years were deleted and totally disappeared from the Outlook Calendar I use.
Any ideas on where I might find those files and how I can get them back?
Carl
Thank you for trying to help me. I'm not sure if you fully understood the problem, from your help suggestion. I don't have a Mac; I have a Hewlett Packard All In One Desktop. The files I'm missing were in my Outlook App installed on my HP Desktop. When the offer to synch I Cloud with Outlook popped up on my HP Desktop Outlook App, to the best of my knowledge I didn't even have I Cloud on my computer. I do have an I Cloud account on my Apple Phone, but I don't own an Apple computer. I've logged into I Cloud on my HP in the past, but I don't use any of its available functions like calendar or contacts etc. Maybe my I Phone communicated somehow with my HP Computer and offered to synch with it. I have no clue.
All I know is I clicked to agree to synch I Cloud with my Outlook App on my HP computer, and that is when for the first time ever any I Cloud folders appeared inside of Outlook. They were Contact Folders, and all of my Outlook Contact files were now deleted from the Outlook folder in the App and appeared in the new I Cloud Contact folders that newly appeared in my Outlook.
My biggest problem is not the contacts, since I can see them in the I Cloud folders. In fact I clicked on most of them and moved them back into Outlook folders. The problem is that almost a two year period of files in my Outlook App Calendar folders are now gone and appear no where that I can see. They no longer appear and can't therefore be opened in the Outlook Calendar which I have used for all of my work. They are gone from about January 2020 through November of 2021. So strange is all of the other months for years before January 2020 and after October 31, 2021 are still there. All of the Contact files had been moved from Outlook to I Cloud, but only a period of almost two years were deleted and totally disappeared from the Outlook Calendar I use.
Any ideas on where I might find those files and how I can get them back?
Carl