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Outlook and iCloud

arthwollipot

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Try as I might, I can't get my iCloud calendar to show in Outlook. My iCloud mail works just fine. But not the calendar. I just want Outlook on my PC to sync with Outlook on my phone. How hard could it be?

Basically when I go into iCloud for Windows and enable Calendar and Contact sync, I get an error message "Setup can't continue because Outlook isn't configured to have a default profile. Check your Outlook settings and try again."

When you google that error message, you get lot of posts on various websites explaining how to fix it, and all of them say basically the same things. I've tried them. None of it has worked. It's infuriating.
 
Yeah, sometimes these things are just ridiculously finicky.

I had similar issues with getting gmail calendar and messages, to integrate properly with Evolution under linux.

What worked for me, was to keep trying after taking a break, i.e. solved it the second day.

On an even more general note, the number of times, I've been caught where the error message was exactly correct, was rather humbling.

I'm guessing you've already tried following all the steps from Microsoft:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au...-profile-6a58817b-0a4b-4774-bd30-456dc7fff740
 
Are you using Office 365? I feel like pst's are a bit dated. Maybe I'm wrong though, I admittedly don't do a lot with Office products because I'd burn the whole ******* suite to the ground given the opportunity.
 
plague311 said:
Are you using Office 365? I feel like pst's are a bit dated. Maybe I'm wrong though, I admittedly don't do a lot with Office products because I'd burn the whole ******* suite to the ground given the opportunity.
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Yeah, 365. But this is apparently a thing that's been going on for a while.

I'm officially giving up. This has no solution. Time to deploy workarounds.
 
And today on a whim I opened iCloud and hit the button to set up Calendars and Contacts in Outlook.

It did so. Successfully. And it's now working perfectly.

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I may have spoken too soon. "Perfectly"? Not so much.

One reason (out of several) that I switched to Outlook is because I understand Outlook's Rules very well and can manipulate them to do near-magic. I wanted to take control over my inbox by automatically sorting mail into various folders that, if necessary, I could read later. Like, I need to keep receipts, but I don't need to actually read them, so they can all automatically go into a folder. When I buy something off the Internet, I like to have a reminder of where I bought things from, but I don't need to read them, so they can be sorted automatically as well. Same for bank statements. I want to keep them, I don't want to unsubscribe from them, but I also don't want them clogging up my inbox.

Problem is, folders won't stick. I create a folder, create a rule to sort stuff into that folder, then on the next sync the folder disappears and I have lost all the mail I put into it.

Fortunately, this appears to actually have a solution. It's to do with IMAP folders and subscriptions. I need to either subscribe to the IMAP folders or (what I did) just set it not to display only subscribed folders.
 
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