Recovering deleted calendar event

[frustrated_exchange_user]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

I created a calendar event in Entourage and pushed it out to exchange. The recipients included a set of co-workers, a meeting room with an automatic calendar updating service, and a mailing list which includes a broader set of co-workers along with my email address.

I needed to update the event, but I was unable to do so because the calendar event in Entourage was the copy received through the mailing list rather than the copy I sent out. I admit I wasn't thinking here, but I deleted the mailing list copy (or so I thought) of the event. Now the event is totally gone and I cannot access it at all. I have no event on my calendar, and nothing in my deleted items that even refers to the original event. All traces of the original event are completely gone from my system.

How do I recover this event? I need to update the existing event in order to keep the meeting room updated with any changes to the meeting time/details.

In hindsight, I should have forwarded the event along to the mailing list, rather than pushing it out as part of the original event, but there was no way for me to know that in advance.

I'm extremely frustrated with this problem, as it seems like undoing a delete action should be relatively straightforward.

On the original issue, it seems that as the creator of the event any copies of the invitation I receive should NEVER supersede the copy I created. That's just terrible design.

Any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I needed to update the event, but I was unable to do so because the
calendar event in Entourage was the copy received through the mailing
list rather than the copy I sent out. I admit I wasn't thinking here,
but I deleted the mailing list copy (or so I thought) of the event.
Now the event is totally gone and I cannot access it at all. I have
no event on my calendar, and nothing in my deleted items that even
refers to the original event. All traces of the original event are
completely gone from my system.

This doesn't quite make sense. If you created the event then it should
still be on your own calendar. I'd imagine that if you also received it
through your mailing list and accepted that as well that you'd have two
events, not just one.

How do I recover this event? I need to update the existing event in
order to keep the meeting room updated with any changes to the
meeting time/details.

At this point since you need to make a change I suggest you simply go
into your Sent Items and located the sent event message. It's just an
E-mail message and won't allow you to alter the event but you can at
least resend it to all recipients and ask that they remove it from their
calendars manually.

Then create the new event and send it as you did before. Do *not* do
anything with the message you receive through the mailing list. The
event should already be on your calendar.

If you have access to the mailing list account's calendar then you
should be able to remove it from there. According to what you're saying
above the event was technically "from" that account.

I'm extremely frustrated with this problem, as it seems like undoing
a delete action should be relatively straightforward.

You should have been warned prior to deleting the message. If it
considered you the owner then you'd have the opportunity to send an
update announcing the cancellation. If it considered you a recipient
then you'd have the opportunity to send a decline message.

On the original issue, it seems that as the creator of the event any
copies of the invitation I receive should NEVER supersede the copy I
created. That's just terrible design.

I'm not sure that's even possible. When I test sending to my own
Exchange account then I don't get the ability to accept my own meeting.
If the meeting came through to you with the mailing list address as the
sender (not you) then you should have been double-booked.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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