Wow. I didn’t realize how completely I rely on my Outlook task and calendar reminders until they stopped working. Yes, that’s right, and apparently it’s not that uncommon! I don’t know if I’m just stricken with bad Outlook luck, or what the deal is. There are a number of potential solutions to this problem, but unfortunately actual users report varying levels of success.

My problem started when I installed yet another “productivity” application, this one called Omea. For some reason, immediately after installing this application, about 35 of my contacts started popping up reminders in Outlook for no good reason. And there is nothing common amongst them; I have no idea why these 35 or so were selected out of my more than 300 contacts.

So, in an attempt to stop the torture, I ran Outlook using the /cleanreminders command line switch, which is supposed to help with matters like this. Well, it worked – I stopped getting reminders. Entirely.

Wow, that’s even worse than it was before!

So, I now bit the bullet, and tried using the /cleanfolders command line switch, which is much more comprehensive.. and scary! Well, again, it worked. My reminders came back – ALL of them. Including the contact reminders. Argh!!!

I guess for now dealing with a polluted reminders list is better than none whatsoever, but only marginally so. I really have to take responsibility for this though, since I know that installing that 3rd party application is what lead to the original problem. But, still… GRR!

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