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

I dont use the mobile me email. I have 4 or 5 different email addresses that I already use within my Outlook, and then when I loaded iCloud to my computer, it created my .me account, but I've never sent emails to / from it.

But my new contacts I've added, and new calendar appointments that I've created over the past month will all be lost? since my backup without iCloud is over a month ago. so that will be a month of information lost?

this blows.

sorry for the frustration, but this is not turning out to be very good for business application. I have no error's using it other than it doesnt work with Outlook.

There are a lot of qwarks that are extremely bothersome. For example, today, I wanted to delete a contact in my work address book. I cant get it to delete. Tried to delete it three times, and then an hour later, it appears in my personal address book.

Then my boss sends me a calendar invitation, and it doesnt appear on my calendar. I received 3 emails saying he sent me a calendar invitation, but it's not there. And everytime I get a calendar invitation, I get 3 emails about it. 2 from iCloud, and 1 from Outlook. How do I move my "Calendar in iCloud" to a new Calendar that is not in iCloud? I dont want to lose all my data.

There's more to it than just restoring the backup. Everything is set up to go through iCloud now. how do i turn it off and get it out of my phone and ipad, and everything? off my computer?

My contacts are in Outlook.

My calenars are in Outlook.

When I changed to iCloud, they became "Calendar in iCloud" and "Contacts in iCloud".

I just want them to go back to NOT being in iCloud.

what I mean is that it's more than just a restore, is that if I go into the Settings in my iPhone, and then to the iCloud tab, then I have all these settings for "on/off", and then ultimately a "delete account" option. I also have iTunes set to sync in the iCloud.

What seems to be working so far in my contacts is that I made new contact folders in the "My Contacts" folder (not in the iCloud folder), and deleted the now empty iCloud contact folders. I'm going to try and move the Calendar folders back to my personal folder and see if that works, but I'm running a backup first just in case.

What worked is this:

Go into Control Panel > iCloud

Uncheck Contacts and Calendars

Then in iTunes, in the Info tab, check "Sync contacts with Outlook", and same for calendars.

Then on the iPhone, go to Settings > iCloud, and turn off contacts and calendars.

I may be missing something else I need to do, but this is working for now.... better than iCloud.

Phew! I almost did a system restore. I just saved myself a month of work!

My calendars ended up the same way. Not perfect, but good enough for me.

I wish I knew how to put my Calendar in iCloud back into my original Outlook calendar.

if you view them in side by side mode, you can click and drag the appointments to the calendar you want them to go to. For me, I have too many appointments to do that... It would take all week. So I'm using both for now, but only using the iCloud calendar to view current appointments. I use my original Outlook calendar for new appointments. In a month or two, it should be current and I can archive my iCloud calendar to view old appointments.

I'm not sure about the backup. I'm still trying to figure that part out.

Forgot to mention (as I'm just learning this today as I use my calendars more), I'm still having iCloud calendar issues.

I'm trying to figure out how to set the default calendar to use. When my boss sends me a calendar invitation, sometimes it goes to my Calendar in iCloud still. I want it to go to my original Outlook calendar.

Not sure how to do this.... any one know?