Deleting previous calendar items that re-occur but not future ones

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RL - 16 Jun 2005 06:11 GMT

I have some users that have recurring calendar items on a weekly basis. They
have set them up correctly in outlook to reoccur weekly. They would like to
delete all the previous occurrances but when they try they can only delete
the series or that 1 occurrance. Is this possible without any 3rd party
softwares?

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 16 Jun 2005 09:44 GMT

Have you tried using AutoArchiving to do the 'dirty work' of deleting the
messages? Of course, this means that all older calendar items would be
deleted, however.

>I have some users that have recurring calendar items on a weekly basis.
>They
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> the series or that 1 occurrance. Is this possible without any 3rd party
> softwares?

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Brian Tillman - 16 Jun 2005 18:20 GMT

> I have some users that have recurring calendar items on a weekly
> basis. They have set them up correctly in outlook to reoccur weekly.
> They would like to delete all the previous occurrances but when they
> try they can only delete the series or that 1 occurrance. Is this
> possible without any 3rd party softwares?

I don't think recurring items are not multiple entries. There single
entries that Outlook presents to you multiple times and so trying to delete
a subset of the recurrences isn't possible.

However, can you open the series and just change the start date to be the
date of the earliest you wish to see? Won't that remove all prior entries
from the Calendar?

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Brian Tillman - 16 Jun 2005 21:50 GMT

> I don't think recurring items are not multiple entries.

That should say "I don't think recurring items are multiple entries.
They're single entries..."

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