iCloud changes your Outlook calendar and contacts.

I read somewhere that icloud moved the contacts into a deleted contacts folder, you might try looking for that first. Or, look in deleted mail. I have found contacts in there that I deleted from my contacts. It might save you having to recreate every contact again.

Good luck and let us all know if this works.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I won't recreate from scratch. I'll try to copy across from the "icloud" folder into the "outlook" original folder, (as discussed above if I have understood the comments correctly), then delete and modify individual items as appropriate. Stilll a labour of hercules but easier than doing everything from scratch again.

I have been, from the 15th, the day after the first post was made. So I guess I don't understand your comment.

hey, anyone has solution of double calendars in outlook 2010?? Id like to confirm, that iCloud calendar is my default calendar. Unfortunatelly, i'cant - now, I have two diffrent calendar - one from outlook (default) and one form iCloud. Of course, appointments on default calendar (and request of meeting) are not visible in my cloud. So, what was the primary idea of iCloud? I try, but I dont understand...

I hope, that I made some mistakes, but I read a couple topics and I didnt find good solution

Hi,

We have exactly the same setup. Same Apple devices, etc.

In the end I uninstalled iCloud from the PC and all my Outlook items came back to their original places (but if you'd like to do it... do it at your own risk as I did). Then I installed iCloud again and I activated only photostreaming. It works.

So now I go on by syncing iPhone using iTunes as before. The only drawback is that iTunes 10.5 has some ambiguous options (maybe it is fault of the italian translation). It is not clear if it is needed to switch on the syncing options with Outlook itams because there are sentences saying "sync is not necessary because it already happens wireless"... Dunno what this means.

Anyway... No more iCloud to exchange Outlook itams.

Bye

This also happened to me. 3.5 hours on the phone with Apple and I have my data back, my dups are gone, but my Outlook color-coding of each calendar item is still gone (hours of work), and it still trumps the default 15 minute reminder for each item. You CAN resent reminders for items manually, but it doesn't support your default reminder settings in Outlook. Call support, ask for Carlos, in the highler level of support. He knows how to fix this.

I'm actually getting crazy because of iCloud. So please help me with a very basic issue.

I'd like to reset iCloud. I mean, once disconnected my iPhone4 and my iPad, I'd like to delete all its information content. Could you please tell me how?

They had me go to my iphone and ipad to Settings > General > iCloud > Delete account.

When asked if you want to keep or not keep the data, say "NO".

You can also delete a Calendar from iCloud, by first making a new one, with no data, and then deleting the old one that has the dups, etc.

This is a way you can get around the dups. Once they get into the cloud, there is no filter to get rid of them. But Outlook and most other calendar programs DO have ways to export the data and import the data without the dups, so with some thinking and hard work, this all can be made right.

Work in progress after my earlier postings.

First I went into iCloud Control Panel on the PC and stopped iCloud synchronisation of Calendars and Contacts via iCloud, and then did the same in "Settings" > "iCloud" on both the iPad and the iPhone. I didn't want iCloud changing the data as I did the corrections.

Then - All the next work was done in Outlook.

Contacts

I selected all the contacts in the "Contacts in iCloud" and copied all of them to "Contacts" in "My Contacts". Then I manually deleted all duplicates in "Contacts" - straightforward but a long time to complete.

Calendars

I copied the "Calendar in iCloud" into "My Calendars" which created a new Calendar "Calendar1". This was for back up in case anything went wrong (maybe I'm paranoid but better safe then sorry).

Then I changed the view of the "Calendar in iCloud" folder to "Categories", the selected all (CTL-A), and copied all the entries back into "Calendar" in "My Calendars". This populated the Outlook Calendar again. Then manual work of hercules to delete the duplicates, set the categories, and reinstall holidays.

Then into iTunes and set the sync for both my iPad and iPhone to sync Contacts and Calendars, and to "replace items with Outlook entries" for the next sync on both the iPad and iPhone .

Then ran Sync and at the end - all 3 devices show the same data and are correct. I'm back where I was before iCloud!

Remaining work is to delete the iCloud Calendars and Contacts, since they are just wasting space but they don't affect any of my 'real' data. I had been to an Apple Store "Genius Bar" when I first had a problem, but thye were all new to iCloud and couldn't help much, although they showed me that I could delete the iCloud entries by, I think, logging on to iCloud and clicking on, say, Calendars and selecting delete from the pop-up menu, but when I tried this from my PC it doesn't give me a "delete" option in the pop-up menu. Maybe my memory of what they showed me is wrong, or maybe it only works when you access iCloud from a Mac? I'll have to contact them again - unless anybody has any other ideas???

Anyway - I hope this helps anybody else in the same position as I was... But it's an awful lot of work......

You have to login into icloud.com and delete things from there if you want them deleted from there. But if you have an icloud account, it will make you have at least one calendar, one contacts. etc. If you want to clean the data from there at icloud, you make a new calendar that has no data with another name. You then delete the calendar that has data. You are then left with a blank one.

If you are trying to delete the stuff from Outlook, you merely over over the icloud calendar, do a right click, and go down to "delete calendar", and poof, it is gone.

You will also want to deinstall the icloud utilility, and add ons to Outlook from the PC last.

Thanks. Evrything worked fine. Last issue: what's about IE bookmarks? No way to delete them from iCloud.com and they are self-generating over and over. I can't stop them...

Not sure on that one, I didn't import those. Apple support should be able to help if you call.

Wow my outlook is a mess. Who in their right mind would release this to the public in its current state?? Calendars, Tasks, Contacts all in the cloud and not able to be added to by outlook. Plus a thosand invites sent.

Apples response...? "You will need to buy and iMac and iWork"

You don't want to know what I said to that Genius!

Thanks to all of you for the precious help.

In the end I was able to get rid of iCloud. My 2 PCs are much happier and will go ahead syncing IE bookmarks and files using Windows Live Mesh. My iPhone4 and iPad will sync with the master PC via USB RIGOROUSLY using iTunes (I don't wanna listen one more word about wireless sync or PC-free management of Apple devices).

I definitely think that (current release of) iCloud is not compatible at all with Outlook. Period.

When it will be sure and proved that it syncs Outlook data in a COMPLETELY transparent way... then I'll keep it into consideration again.

I'm very sad about all of this, just because purchase of iPhone4 and iPad would have liked to be the first step towards the complete switching from PC to Apple world but... please! I never imagined such an embarrassing situation. Very, very bad fate sign...