Accidentally Deleted Calendar Event via Decline Button

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Accidentally Deleted Calendar Event via Decline Button

I have accidentally deleted a calendar event on more than one occasion due to having a calendar event open to view its contents and then accidentally touching the Decline button, usually when trying to scroll and putting the finger down too far (and to the right).

Has anyone else done this? Any tips for avoiding this problem other than the obvious "be more careful" or "swipe towards the left of the screen"? Is there any way to get rid of the Accept,Maybe,Decline buttons or to add an additional confirmation dialog? The only way to recover after an accidental Decline seems to be to have the invitee or someone invited to the event forward the calendar event to me again so that I can accept it and have it put back on the calendar.

The calendar events in question are those coming from a Microsoft Exchange server used at work. There is no issue with my own calendar events since these obviously do not have Accept,Maybe,Decline buttons.

MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Feb 11, 2010 10:31 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 12, 2010 9:26 AM in response to Richard Falk

I understand you problem but its an Exchange issue and the way that Exchanges issues and responds to invitations. The Activesync feature on the Exchange server is a Microsoft product, however feedback to Apple may help - if its possible, there is no good reason not to have it.

Feedback here; http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Feb 11, 2010 10:36 AM in response to Richard Falk

No, its in the nature of Exchange invites. Once you decide, you have to live wth it. The only thing you can do is to ask your IT admin folks to recover the invite email and give it back to you, for reconsideration. There is no "are you sure" option as Exchange doesn't support that.

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Richard Falk Author

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Feb 12, 2010 8:36 AM in response to Graham Outterside

Thanks. I suppose my gripe isn't so much with Microsoft as it is with Apple's U.I. design that makes it too easy to make a change that deletes the event. For other places where there is a deletion, such as the trash symbol for mail messages, you are prompted with a secondary "Delete Message" dialog which is a configurable option "Ask Before Deleting" in the Mail preferences. I would like to see a similar option for the calendar events "Ask Before Declining" or something like that since a Decline deletes the calendar event and unfortunately it is too easy to accidentally hit that Decline button.

So what is the best way to make a feature request to Apple such as the above? I'll consider the question answered if I know how to best make this suggestion to Apple.

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