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Resolving Outlook Error ' The reminder for may not appear...'

Though mainly used as an email client, Microsoft Outlook allows you to maintain calendar information and keep task reminders as well. Consequently, you can display reminder information at calendar's top as an event or in the calendar itself.

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At times, you find certain issues with these Outlook items. As expected, Outlook task reminders and calendar fail to appear at scheduled time. One of the root causes responsible for this behavior is that your Personal Storage file contains damaged reminder items or the complete reminder folder is corrupted. PST corruption should be resolved by running Inbox Repair Tool or restoring from the backup. If none of the measures work, you should better scan your file by using PST Recovery applications.

For an instance, besides from unexpected and unscheduled behavior of Outlook calendar and task reminders, when you click 'Save and Close' button for new appointment that has a reminder, you come across an error message as below:

“The reminder for may not appear because the item is not in your Calendar or Tasks folder. Is this OK? ”

Cause

Microsoft Outlook processes and triggers reminders from a special-purposed folder known as Reminder Folder that is stored in either personal folder or Inbox of mailbox . The folder is kind of search folder containing links to those messages which meet certain criteria. For reminders to trigger, it is required that Outlook must be running and reminders should reside at the location where you receive all your emails. Outlook exhibits the above discussed behavior in any of the following conditions:

The calendar and task reminders your specified are not in primary folders, as expected by the application. Primary folder is the one that resides at your mail delivery point. As an illustration, while setting up your email service, you designated PST Inbox as the location where you should receive your emails. But when you created a reminder, you stored it in some other folder instead of PST Calendar. In similar conditions, when you haven't specified your reminders in primary folder, Outlook will fail to display at the scheduled time.

Outlook doesn't maintain separate file for handling reminders as other applications do. So if Outlook is not running, reminders will fail to display and trigger.

For Outlook reminders to be processed by the application, it is must that you have specified a location where your emails could be delivered by default. The above error could occur if while setting up your email service, you haven't specified the 'Delivery' option to any valid value but to 'none'.

Outlook is trying to access reminders from a corrupted reminders folder. It might also occur due to some corrupt entries in the folders. If PST is your mail delivery location, such errors could result due to corruption of the file.

Solution

Below are the methods that you should apply to solve these problems. In case when the reminders or whole PST is damaged, you need to either delete the reminders or run Inbox Repair Tool if PST corruption is the issue. PST Recovery can also be achieved by using commercial applications if Inbox Repair Tool fails. You can apply these measures to correct the existing issue:

Make sure that when you create reminders, you are saving them in the primary folder.
Start Outlook if it is not running You can delete all the existing reminders by running /cleanreminders switch. To do so, you need to exit the application and click Start->Run and type outlook /cleanreminders.

If this doesn't help, you should try a different switch to reset all the folders as outlook /resetfolders, Try running Inbox Repair Tool to correct PST file corruption problems.
If a clean backup is available and Inbox Repair Tool doesn't work, delete the damaged file and restore from backup.

For effective and safe PST Repair, scan the file using third-party tools. Designed to run powerful repair algorithms and embedded with rich graphical features, PST Recovery software serve as advanced tools to repair and restore a damaged PST file crashed due to logical reasons.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the world’s trusted product that repairs and recover PST file. The software supports non-destructive PST Repair for Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It recovers all email items and other Outlook items, such as calendar entries, journals, notes, tasks, appointments etc. This safe PST file Recovery application is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT. The software is also competent to recover lost PST password and split a PST file.

About Author

Bob Luis has passion for writing Technical article. He is right now writing articles related to Product like PST file Recovery and Recover PST. He is a professional writer. For more information, visit: http://www.pst-recovery-software.com

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Resolving Outlook Error ' The reminder for may not appear...'