iCloud is a NIGHTMARE with Outlook

As far as I understand you needed to make a backup of your outlook data before you installed iCloud. Not sure if you can revert back if you don't have this.

Start by uninstalling iCloud and see if it puts your data back or not. If not and you still have problems opening or accessing outlook remove and reinstall that.

I'm the same, its been nothing but a nightmare (I have a backup to revert to tho)

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Aoife2 wrote:

This is an utter nightmare with i Cloud and Outlook..........I just want to get back to my original Outlook back Question when it is so simple to set up..........why is it so complicated to revert back?

Gosh if anyone has a step to step guide I would love to know. I have spent an age trying to figure out what everyone is saying and it seems to me it's all trial and errors and heaps of wasted time. I wish I never pressed the buttonst into i Cloud. Anyone please need to get my systems back on track. 😕

Use Outlooks archive command to save your iCloud data locally, then sign out of iCloud in the Windows Control Panel, then restore the archived data to Outlooks local folders (personal folders)

When I uninstalled iCloud it seemed to restore my data back to the regular outlook calendars etc.

So now I have iCloud calendars under my outlook calendars tab (popping up an error on click because of course iCloud is no longer present on my machine), and all my info that WAS in the iCloud calendar is now back where it belongs in the default outlook calendars.

I now just need to figure out how to remove the iCloud calendars from outlook. So if you have any ideas lol....

Right click on the icloud account in Outlooks sidebar and select 'close'

Thanks Csound1 - For anyone else wondering; you have to right click iCloud under the MAIL tab, not calendars as the remove/delete option is not available (or rather disabled) under the calendars tab.

In the Mail tab, under your main inbox and personal folders right click the iCloud folder and select remove.

And iCloud is relinquished :)

I managed to close it in the mail tab. But in the contacts tab, I still have one. Oh, and ALL of my contacts are now missing. This truly is horrible. I have backups of my email file, but really? This is nuts.

This icloiud software is criminal, there was no warning to backup or archive data, just "click here to activate" I had no idea outlook would be destroyed by the cloud software, How do you uninstall the cloud software from my PC? There is no uninstall option...

Open the Outlook Accounts. (Outlook 2010, click on Account Settings, click on the Data Files tab, remove the iClould data file.

This will remove the email and calendar. I didn't notice any change with my contacts; however, I using an Exchange Active Sync connection - so all of my contacts are located in my "Exchange Server".

Good luck!

-Kevin

notacloudfan wrote:

This icloiud software is criminal, there was no warning to backup or archive data, just "click here to activate" I had no idea outlook would be destroyed by the cloud software, How do you uninstall the cloud software from my PC? There is no uninstall option...

Where is your backup?

In Outlook 2010

File > Account Settings > Account Settings > Data Files > Delete the iCloud data file > Close

Like kmaszdf I'm also on an exchange server so my contacts are hosted elsewhere. But some of my "personal" contacts are not on that server and they did not disappear...

It has been my experieence that its a nightmare iCloud trying to work with Outlook, I have lost ALL of my calandar data having to manually enter the appointments that were lost, very disappointed in the iCloud experience with Outlook. I should of left things as they were it was working fine.

If anyone has any ideas on how to restablish my calendar and contacts please let me know.

philofcalgary wrote:

If anyone has any ideas on how to restablish my calendar and contacts please let me know.

Restore your backup

If you had autoarchive set in Outlook you may be able to restore using that