Outlook should allow more than 2 years of calendar history!
 

For some strange logic that escapes me, the builders of Outlook have bulit
into the software a limit of two (2) years that the calendar will be saved.
Everything older than 2 years is automatically truncated. The user is thus
prevented from searching events, appointments, activities and all of the
other functions available in the Outlook Calendar. This is an unnecessary and
illogical feature. The calendar items actually are small in size compared to
the emails, which are generally huge in comparison to text documents.
Besides, if the user can save an unlimited amount of emails, assuming that
sufficient hard drive space is available, why not permit at least the same
facility with the calendar. My calendar of appointments, activities,
meetings, etc. is critical to me. I only discovered last year that everything
I'd dutifully being putting into my calendar (contact, meeting information,
etc.) had been summarily automatically deleted because of some arcane
assumption by Microsoft that we users don't need more than 2 years of
history. Is that the only history that Microsoft uses in its preparations and
research -- just two years?!

There are numerous functions and features about Outlook that I find
troublesome, but you REALLY need to fix this feature. Please know that the
ONLY reason I use Outlook and its features is because my university requires
its use. If I had a choice, I'd be using another family of software. Please
listen to us customers and make some extremely needed corrections. If we want
to cut out all calendar entries before two years ago, one could have that
feature installed as one which WE elect to TURN ON! Give the customer the
choice instead of mandating some standard that Microsoft considers
sufficient. PLEASE!!!

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Outlook should allow more than 2 years of calendar history!
 

TGanges wrote:

For some strange logic that escapes me, the builders of Outlook have
bulit into the software a limit of two (2) years that the calendar
will be saved. Everything older than 2 years is automatically
truncated.

I believe you are mistaken. Unless you have autoarchive enabled, I don't
see how old data would be removed from your calendar.
--
Brian Tillman

Outlook should allow more than 2 years of calendar history!
 

Funny, I have 8 years of calendar items, some archived and others not. Not
an accurate description - more likely a configuration issue.

Making a suggestion to Microsoft to add a feature that has been there in all
versions of Outlook since Outlook 97 is not a good use of the suggestion
feature.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, TGanges asked:

| For some strange logic that escapes me, the builders of Outlook have
| bulit into the software a limit of two (2) years that the calendar
| will be saved. Everything older than 2 years is automatically
| truncated. The user is thus prevented from searching events,
| appointments, activities and all of the other functions available in
| the Outlook Calendar. This is an unnecessary and illogical feature.
| The calendar items actually are small in size compared to the emails,
| which are generally huge in comparison to text documents. Besides, if
| the user can save an unlimited amount of emails, assuming that
| sufficient hard drive space is available, why not permit at least the
| same facility with the calendar. My calendar of appointments,
| activities, meetings, etc. is critical to me. I only discovered last
| year that everything I'd dutifully being putting into my calendar
| (contact, meeting information, etc.) had been summarily automatically
| deleted because of some arcane assumption by Microsoft that we users
| don't need more than 2 years of history. Is that the only history
| that Microsoft uses in its preparations and research -- just two
| years?!
|
| There are numerous functions and features about Outlook that I find
| troublesome, but you REALLY need to fix this feature. Please know
| that the ONLY reason I use Outlook and its features is because my
| university requires its use. If I had a choice, I'd be using another
| family of software. Please listen to us customers and make some
| extremely needed corrections. If we want to cut out all calendar
| entries before two years ago, one could have that feature installed
| as one which WE elect to TURN ON! Give the customer the choice
| instead of mandating some standard that Microsoft considers
| sufficient. PLEASE!!!
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
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