I have a recurring meeting invite in my Outlook 2007 calendar. A few days ago the meeting organiser sent out a cancellation for this week's particular occurrence - normally it would be removed from my calendar but for some reason this didn't happen.

I am now trying to delete the occurrence manually which I can usually do either by double clicking and choosing to open that occurrence's invite, or by right clicking and choosing Delete, then choosing the occurrence. This way it won't impact the overall recurring invite.

However since the cancellation, right clicking the invite does nothing - no pop up appears. If I double click it, I receive the following error:

I've tried changing the Current View from Day/Week/Month to some of the list views such as Events but I can't seem to find the meeting. It seems from the error that the actual message itself has long been deleted but for some reason it still persists in the calendar UI.

How can I remove it?

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I couldn't resolve this within the Outlook desktop client - I tried a huge number of approaches but the event wouldn't budge.

The solution was to log on to my account using Outlook Web Access and delete the event from there. I have no idea what the root cause was, but this was the only working solution in the end!

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I would try running

outlook /cleanreminders

There are other switches you can use to deal with various Outlook problems, check here for more details:

Other steps to resolve:

• Recreate OST file by disabling and then re-enabling cached mode
• Login to Outlook Web Access and delete the meeting from there

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Try to delete your appointment from this screen:

View -> Current View -> All Appointments

This is the only solution that worked for me.

Try logging out of Outlook and run it again. You've reached the max deleted file count for your session and this will reset it.

Go into your sent box that includes the original invite. Open it up and hit decline.

Once this reply went through, it removed the item from my calendar.

Note I turned off my iPad and only connected to the account one way. I'm not sure if this made a difference. I have but do not use Office Outlook 2013.

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