Outlook Appointments - Appointments Missing From Your PDA

Have you just noticed that all of your appointments and calendar events have been deleted from Microsoft Outlook email client software prior to a current month? Are you using a Blackberry or other personal digital assistance device and this has not happened before? Your archive calendar is also empty.

Are you also missing addresses from your address book? You can try to search for any and all .pst files on your computer. Outlook .pst files are archive files.

Also, you will want to make sure that you do not have Delete expired items checked in your Microsoft Outlook configuration settings. You can also set Microsoft Outlook to automatically auto archive your events. Basically, archived items are stored in a compressed archive .pst file.

You cannot read those entries on the fly, so to speak, but you can restore those archived events when needed. It is also highly productive to backup your archive .pst files if that information is important enough to you. You can check your Deleted Items folder in Microsoft Outlook.

Also, you will want to check your synchronized settings on your Blackberry. By default some handhelds will delete appointments after sixty days old or whatever their default setting is. I think this is what makes most sense right now. Even if you cannot recover your past appointments, you will want to make sure you check out your Blackberry settings and change them to forever or enable Auto Archive in Microsoft Outlook.

I am afraid if they are not archived or in deleted items than it might not be possible to recover them. If you configure your Blackberry and or Microsoft Outlook email client to save or archive your items, as well as backup your archive file, if you create one, then in future you will be able to restore your items. These tips were written for a computer running Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, Microsoft Outlook email client, and Blackberry Storm personal digital assistance, but can certainly be used as a basis for other Microsoft Windows computers with Microsoft Outlook email client installed and synchronized with other personal digital assistants.

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