can't dismiss January 1,1601 appointment

[tbone]

Somehow i have an appointment with a January 1, 1601 date. I have Office XP
and outlook 2002. I can not dismiss the appointment. I have tried the
/cleanreminders switch, but that has not stopped the reminder from appearing
everytime Outlook is opened. I get a notice " cannot turn off reminder.You
must specify a valid date/time"

Any ideas how to dismiss or better yet delete the appointment altogether?

 

[Mary]

Check your date setting in Windows and make sure it's correct in Control
Panel, Regional Settings. Have you tried to change the date to one in the
future and then delete it?

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

1/1/1601 is one way of Outlook (actually the CDO MAPI component) telling you
there is no valid date. The binary for that date is 0.

Try starting Outlook with the /cleanreminders switch and see if that fixes
things.

Start, Run. In that dialog type: outlook.exe /cleanreminders

Press Enter. Do that with Outlook not running.

 

[tbone]

I checked the date settings and all looks well. the outlook calendar only
goes back to April 2, 1601 so I am unable to get to the appointment to
delete, if it exists.
I tried starting Outlook with the /cleanreminders switch and that did not
work. Reminder for the appointment still popped up. I have also uninstalled
and re-installed Office XP and still the appointment/reminder exists.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Set your calendar folder view to Active Appointments and see if you can find
that item and delete it. If not you might have to set up a new profile and
possibly even a new PST file and copy over everything but that bad item into
the new PST.

Another thing you can try is to run ScanPST.exe on your PST file. Use
Windows Explorer to find that and run it.

 

[tbone]

I used the view function and found an appointmtnet with an 1899 date. i
deleted it and it seemed to solve the problem. thank you for the helpful
suggestion. After more thought I beleive there is some problem with the
synchronization between outlook and motorola mobile phone tools software.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Mobile phone/PDA/Blackberry synch software is known to cause problems in
many cases, see if there's a newer version available or different software
for your device.

The years 1899 or 1601 or 4501 are all different ways of saying Null data
for Outlook/MAPI/CDO.

 

[John Venables]

I was wondering if u guys could have a quick look over the below post that I
posted earlier...

It seems to be something to do with Outlook connector, but I am not 100%..In
Hotmail Live there isnt even an anniversary field for it to populate.. Tis
may have started happening since I sync'd with Active Sync 3.8 and my
PDA....But I have never had the problem before...

I use Outlook Live with Hotmail Live. What usually happens is my contacts,
mails, calendar synchronises with my Hotmail equivalent cia Outlook
Connector....In the last few days it seems to be adding an anniversary date
of 01/01/1601 everytime it syncs...I have deleted all entries in my calendar
and set anniversary date to none, but every time it syncs it keeps coming
back....The strange thing is that it doesnt happen to all contacts, but I
does to it to every new one added....I even deleted the contacts and manually
typed them back in and that does exactly the same.....

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

There's really not a lot that anyone can do, just use different synch
software and delete any spurious reminders.

 

[John Venables]

Ken,
This has only recently started happening in the last few weeks and all the
products are Microsoft. Surely the answer cant be try different software,
there must be an issue somewhere.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The issue is that something is causing the reminders to have null data.
That's what 1/1/1601 means. Whether or not all the MS products are playing
well together is something else and something that we can't help with. All I
know is Outlook is seeing the invalid data. If this just started then some
update you did caused it. Even if everything is MS that's no guarantee it
will all work together correctly.