I want to get rid of iCloud. How do I get my Outlook back to how it used to be?

I didn't like iCloud (it mucked up my Outlook files), so I uninstalled it. Outlook is back to normal now I've tidied it up, but iTunes tells me that Outlook is synced with my PC via iCloud. Perhaps it knows something I don't.

slotu wrote:

If you have iClound on your Control Panel, first deselect Calendar and Contacts. Then Sign Out before you uninstall. It will ask if you want to delete or keep a copy. If you choose to keep a copy, it will copy all of your calendar and contact entries back into your default calendar and contact files and delete the iCloud group.

I tried this and ended up with this panel in Outlook:
"Contacts (2)" was just "Contacts" before. "Contacts Merge Conflicts" I can just delete. The iCloud group I can't delete - I do not have "appropriate permissions", although I am the PC owner and only user.

I have also ended up with duplicated, nay, quintuplicated entries on my iPod contacts, which can, it seems, only be deleted individually. It don't 'alf take a long time!

I have uninstalled icloud from my PC and turned the calendar and contacts off on the ipad, created a new Outlook 2010 profile. Painfully restored my ipad twice (to new) and it will not sync to Outlook. After the last restore the calendar & contacts were blank. Then I turned on Itunes sync (calendar & contacts)and it synced back to the old outlook information (with double entries and the profile that had icloud). I dont understand why it would not sync the information in the current calendar & contacts. I have a case with Apple and they have not been able to resolve. Please help!

Thank you so very much. This worked wonderfully. It has been a hairraising time!!! I realize that people who have Outlook do not need this iCloud. I had to transfer all my telephone numbers from an old phone. I did this before I saw your advice. I do not if would have worked with iphone eitherwise.

Follow slotu 's advice.

Thank you Slotu - I wanted to remove the Outlook syncing but keep the photostream and bookmarks syncing. So I followed your advice, omitting the uninstall, and it worked great.

I did print to pdf the list view of appointments first, as well as my contacts list, just in case I ended up with nothing and had to redo everything. We do have multiple backups, but I couldn't remember when I turned on iCloud so I wasn't sure how helpful that would be so figured a print out would be tedious but doable.

I did find that I had to redo my email contact groups - but that function wasn't working in iCloud before either - I'd type the group name in and it would tell me it was blank. A small price to pay for getting to work right again.

I also had to move all my appointments from the 'Calendar from iCloud' folder to my default calendar. List view is wonderful 🙂 Select all and drag to the right folder. Only one appointment refused to move and I had to reenter it, but one is not bad. Then I had to turn on all my reminders again too (again iCloud had managed to randomly turn off most of them when it was running anyway). List view wins again. I simply pulled up the column for reminders and went down turning them all on again - it had remembered what they were set to before iCloud got involved so all was good.

I have Outlook back and running normally again and it didn't take long at all.

So thank you once again.

Just to make sure that everything would stay where it was I went into the iCloud settings on the iPad and iPhone as well and turned off all the Outlook options leaving only the photos and bookmarks (wouldn't have minded keeping the notes, but decided it wasn't worth setting up the email address to do so). Again, when I switched those off it asked me if I wanted to keep a copy on the device so I just said yes, and everything looks great.

I had exactly the same problem - icloud is way too intrusive in my outlook but also does not show entries in my work calander that are in my icloud work calander which is crazy. Anyway the advice worked - thanks!

where do I sign out? I could not find this option in the icloud control panel. Now after more than 5 hours frustration, I start to really hate this intrusive icloud. Why on the earth does it remove all my outlook events without asking for my permission first!!!!

Well, what's weird is the only music that shows up on my itunes is the music we bought from the store, nothing else. It also won't let me sync unless i delete evry song on my phone and resync it.

Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu on your Mac. Click iCloud and go from there.