OL97: New Calendar Has Bold Days with No Appointments Scheduled

• Microsoft Outlook 97

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Outlook 97, if you delete the primary Calendar folder from the Microsoft Exchange Server, Outlook creates a new Calendar folder. The new folder does not contain appointments from the old folder but the small calendar displayed in Day/Week/Month view still shows bolded days for the old appointments.

CAUSE

Deleting the Calendar folder from the server does not reset the free/busy information in Outlook.

RESOLUTION

Run Outlook with the /CleanFreeBusy startup switch.

MORE INFORMATION

To clear free/busy time that does not represent a Calendar item, do the following:

1. Quit Outlook.

2. On the Windows desktop, right-click the Outlook icon.

3. On the shortcut menu, click Properties.

4. On the Shortcut tab, type a space followed by /cleanfreebusy in the Target box or Command Line box. If the last character in the path line is a quotation mark, be sure to type the space and switch name outside the quotation mark.

5. Click OK, then restart Outlook.

REFERENCES

For more information on the use of /cleanfreebusy and other startup switches, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q156982
   TITLE     : OL97: Additional Command-Line Switches for Microsoft
               Outlook

   ARTICLE-ID: Q169924
   TITLE     : OL97 ErrMsg: Cannot Find the File "Outlook /cleanreminders"

Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS