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February 2003

Cleaning up Corrupt Outlook Reminders


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Bob Chronister
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My Calendar meeting reminders don't appear when I use Microsoft Outlook 2000 in connected mode. When I work offline, I often see several reminders popping up as past-due. Why aren't reminders working while I'm connected?

The most likely reason is that your reminders folder has one or more corrupt reminder items. To resolve this problem, type

outlook /cleanreminders

at a DOS prompt or in the Run command's Open field.

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Reader Comments
good stuff

fred March 01, 2004

Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook.
The command line argument is not valid.
Verify the switch you are using.

Anonymous User January 14, 2005

Tot he above poster, the command in the run would look something more like this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe" /cleanreminders

Change the path to wherever your outlook.exe is located.

Anonymous User March 01, 2005

Tried doing this but I can't seem to figure out if it is actually cleaning the reminders list or not. Is there a way to check if the process is working and/or log for the same.


Anonymous User April 20, 2005 (Article Rating: )


Don't work

Anonymous User May 19, 2005 (Article Rating: )

Quit Outlook, click Start, point to Run, type
outlook /cleanreminders, and then click OK

Anonymous User August 09, 2005 (Article Rating: )

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