iCloud changes your Outlook calendar and contacts.

Same here, I attend dozens of regular meetings at work sometimes with 30 or more attendees, I have had to send out an e-mail of apology this morning since iCloud hijacked all of my colleagues meetings and sent out thousands of invites as if I was the meeting organizer!!!

What is going on Apple

iCloud sent 5 meeting invites from my personal email address to all attendies of a meeting that I was not the organizer of. Then it sent a meeting cancellation for the same meeting. The organizer had to resend the invite to everyone. Very embarrassing, but everyone had a good laugh at iCloud's expense at the meeting. I'm not syncing with google calendar with no issues.

I like the idea of creatng a blank iCloud - I'll try that.

But deleting the Calendar from the Outlook iCloud group doesn't work - if I had already tried to right-click, but the delete options are all "greyed" out. When I tred earlier to delete the Contacts, then it isn't greyed out but when I do it I get a pop-up box saying I don't have permissions to delete it!

Quit Outlook and do it from iCloud.com as suggested.

It works. Except for IE bookmarks.

But unchain your PC from iCloud before (of course...)

Seems like pretending that iCloud works with Outlook was a way to encourage PC users to make the complete switch. I could not be more disappointed in this service. Synching made a complete mess of my two thousand or so contacts, removing city, state and zip for almost every one and replacing them with United States of America. There was no indication or warning that synching would remove your information from Outlook and put it in the Fog, er, Cloud. I tried removing it all together and going back to hard synch via iTunes. That's when I found out that ALL my calendar stuff now exists ONLY in the Fog.

As I wrote before, in my case Apple got the opposite effect. I was considering switching to Apple world but after this experience... why should I? I know very well Windows env. and not so much Apple's. If problems start to be the same... I stay where I am.

DO NOT sync iCloud with Outlook until this all gets sorted out. I have lost all my appointments and contacts on Outlook. The only way to get them back is to move them one at a time from icloud back to outlook. Then I will have to disconnect icloud some way to keep it from happening again.

What really ticks me off is that no one from Apple seems interested in fixing the problem!

I would be willing to bet that Apple doesn't even think there is a problem. And THAT is where the problem really is.

I had a bad experience with Mobilme, they lost all my info which of course meant that mobilme wanted to erase all the contacts on my PC. But in Mobilme, there was an option to notify me whenever ANY info on my PC was going to be changed. Luckily I denied the change and didn't allow a sync. I allowed mobilme to make the changes on my MACS and sure enough, everything went away, contacts, calendars, all empty. After that I have been leery of MM and now icloud. I think that the concept of icloud is great, but the way Apple has done it is even less secure than Mobilme was.

My suggestion is to let Apple work on this for a while before you trust them with all your info. I for one will not be trusting them with my info until they give ME the control to decide what will be deleted on my PC and Mac.

It's been a disaster for me. I don't have the time or computer IQ to do what the OP talks about. I just want the calendar on my phone to back up to my computer without 48 different calendars that I don't even know what they are. I give up.

Apple - Fail

Beating a dead horse but just can't believe APL was not aware of things like Calendar no longer being able to use an alert with and event. How common place is that? Adding insult to injury, the message tells you that alerts are no longer supported, followed by "Is this okay?" No. It's not.

Sucessfully removed Cloud from PC. Exported Outlook Personal Files to desktop first to have a backup to imoport in case removing iCloud removed all email, contact, calendar, etc. data. Unchecked everything except photostream from phone, deleted all phone data then went back to iTunes land synch. Data intact. The cloud(s) have parted and the sun is back.

Hello cowin

Try exporting the I crowd callander to your desktop apple's iCloud makes the iCloud as the master delete your iCloud callander

Your outlook callander at this stage should already be empty

Make sure your iCloud feature is not syncing anymore ( turn the darn thing off from control panel )

Now import the file from your desktop you should be good now with one callander

Thing to note is that if you have a different apple iCloud I'd than the one you use on outlook you may not have a master copy of your callander if you have already turned the iCloud off on your PC

Hope this help and i hope it is not coming too late

I thought (as I assume most people did) this would sync to icloud not hijack my calendar and contacts into the icloud.

Thankfully its a simple drag and drop exercise to move the data back to outlook and turn-off icloud.

Where was the fine print to say it was ok to remove data from my PC?

My thoughts exactly Bward71. It is what I am most disappointed with.