How To Restore Outlook Deleted Calendar Items

Microsoft Outlook has many useful features like calendars, tasks, and journals apart from sending and receiving emails. These features help Outlook users do other work using their profiles. Calendar is the widely used feature that helps users keep track of their appointments, meetings, bookings (hotels and flights), etc.

Like other Outlook items, Calendar items are also prone to data loss due to many factors, including accidental deletion. This article explores the reasons for calendar items getting deleted and methods you can use to restore Outlook deleted calendar items.

Reasons For Deletion Of Calendar Items From Outlook

There are many reasons for Outlook calendar items getting deleted, and a few of them are:

Accidental deletion using Shift + Delete keys – Outlook users accidentally delete their calendar data using Shift + Delete keys without knowing about it.

Outlook suddenly crashing – If you are working on Outlook and the application suddenly crashes, it may damage the Outlook data file (PST), ultimately leading to data loss, including calendar items.

Corruption of the PST file due to virus/malware attacks – A virus attack on the PST data file or the system can damage the file and make the data inaccessible for viewing. It means the users can’t access any information, including calendar events, and they lose the data.

Abrupt system/Outlook shutdown – A sudden system/Outlook shutdown may lead to Outlook data file corruption, ultimately leading to permanent data loss. Such cases include system shutdown due to power failure or Outlook application suddenly freezing.

The reasons mentioned above give you an idea of how necessary it is to safeguard the entire Outlook data, including the calendar. Let’s move on to the methods used to recover Outlook deleted calendar items.

Methods To Restore Outlook Deleted Calendar Items

The reasons mentioned above can make the calendar data inaccessible if you ignore them for a long time. But don’t worry the following methods can help you restore the deleted calendar events.

Method 1: Recover From Deleted Items Folder

The Deleted Items folder in Outlook stores deleted emails, calendar items, and other files for the default time of one month. This folder is the temporary storage for the deleted items. The files you may need in the future are easily recoverable from this folder. You can restore the Outlook deleted calendar items using the following steps –

1. Open the Outlook app and go to the Deleted Items folder in the left pane.
2. Once the folder opens, select the events you want to restore.
3. Right-click on the calendar event, click Move and choose the destination folder.

Note: If you see the Trash folder instead of the Deleted Items folder, follow the same steps to restore deleted calendar events.

Method 2: Checking Recoverable Items Folder

If you can’t find the deleted calendar events in the Deleted Items or Trash folder, check out the Recoverable Items folder. You can’t see this folder in plain sight, and the emails and other items are stored in this folder when

• Emails, Calendar events, and other items get deleted from the Deleted Items or Trash folder.
• The Deleted Items or Trash folder is already empty.
• Permanently delete items using Shift + Delete Keys.

Follow this guide to restore Outlook deleted calendar items from the folder –

1. First, ensure that the Outlook app and the mail server are connected.
2. Inside the app, go to the Deleted Items folder under your email folder list.
3. Now click the Recover Deleted Items from Server option next to the New Items option in the top left corner.
4. The Recover Deleted Items window will open up, showing deleted calendar events with date and time.
5. Select Restore Selected Items and click OK.

Method 3: Use An Automated Tool

If you can’t restore the Outlook deleted calendar items using the methods mentioned above, it’s best to use a professionally reliable automated tool to repair and recover the damaged PST file. Many tools are available online, and here we will talk about one such tool, the SysTools Outlook Recovery Tool. This tool helps you to fix any type of error, like the Outlook data file not opening, which occurs due to the corruption of the file.

Here’s the list of things you can do with this tool –

Recover calendars with attachments (documents, VCF Business Cards, etc) and their status, start and end time, duration, and all-day events from the PST file

• Recover various calendar types – appointments and events, meetings, tasks, and group schedules
• The Search PST Files option allows you to add & recover multiple PST files.
• Preview deleted data files in red color.
• Repair PST files with the tool and Restore PST data in Office 365.

Let’s see a quick guide on how to use the tool –

1. Install the Tool to your system. Once installed, open it and add the corrupted file using the Add File option.
   Start the scanning process by clicking the Add button. Once the scanning is over, all the file items are displayed.
2. Click on the Export option to export the entire PST data on your system, or click the Export Selected option to export only selected files.
3. Choose the export format (PDF, PST, EML, HTML) and the destination of the exporting data. In this case, select PST as the format.
4. Click on Export to start the exporting process. Once done, you can see the exported files in the selected destination.
5. Once the recovered PST file gets downloaded, open/import it into the Outlook application.

This tool enables you to restore deleted calendar items without technical knowledge.

Conclusion

This article discussed the reasons and provided methods to restore Outlook deleted calendar items. The reasons for this issue range from accidental deletion to PST file corruption to improper Outlook shutdown, and solutions provided in this article can solve this problem without impacting your crucial calendar data.