Microsoft Outlook Appointment / Calendars / Task Reminder Not Working – Solution

Approved By Rollins Duke

Published On November 16th, 2023

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Everyone is familiar with Microsoft Outlook, which is one of the desktop applications that personalize the information. You can make tasks, calendars, and reminders and store them in Outlook precisely. However, there is a possibility that at times it may not work properly on the scheduled time. This is because the file is corrupted or there is another problem.

If the file is corrupted then, it is important to perform Microsoft Outlook recovery to repair PST files.

You may come across the message while you ‘Save’ the new reminder.

“The reminder for “abcd” will not appear because the item is in a folder that doesn’t support reminders. Is it OK?”

It is a hard situation to manage work in, if you lose the remainder, you may end up forgetting urgent meetings you had to attend, things you had to do and every target you have set up may go wrong.

What may be the reasons for the cause?

Let us go through the issue and find out the reason for its occurrence to obtain some solution for the same. There are ways to set up the reminders both manual and automatic.

Ground for Microsoft Outlook Appointment Reminder Not Working

You can see plenty of reasons around. Some of the dominant causes can be:

The outlook is not functioning properly. The reminders are not kept separately Outlook runs it. Therefore, improper working of Outlook leads to trouble with a reminder.
The remainder is not set inside the primary folder. Primary folder occupies at the delivery point of the mail.
Corruption of the reminder file will step in as another cause for it to stop working properly.
The delivery location may be set as ‘None’. There should be a default location for the reminder to go.
The display remainder option set ‘Off’ in Outlook interface or in Group Policy interface. Typically, if a feature is assembled with a group policy, then it is disabled.

Ways to Get Rid of Issues with Reminders

There is no particular solution to this type of problems. There are many solutions for this and you will have to work out on each and fix the trouble.

In general;

Verify all the remainders created and stored in the Primary folder.
Run Outlook to get the remainders if it is not running.
Recover the PST file from corruption using any third party solution.
Close Outlook. On the ‘Start’ menu, go to ‘Run’ and type outlook/clean reminders or outlook/reset folders and click on ‘Ok’.

In 2003;

Go to Tool menu and select ‘Email Account’.
In ‘Email Account’ box see that if view or change existing mail account is enabled and press ‘Next’.
See whether the location is selected to Deliver new email to the following location:
Click on ‘Ok’, if done.

If the reminder does not appear in Outlook 2007;

Select the ‘Tool’ tab on the top.
Choose ‘Options’ and go to ‘Others’.
In ‘Others’ choose ‘Advanced Options’ settings.
From the ‘Advanced Option’ window then, choose ‘Reminder Option’ and check ‘Display the Reminder’.
Press on the ‘Ok’ button.

For those who use 2019, 2016, 2013 and 2010;

Go for File menu and click on Option from the menu.
Select Advanced from Option
Under the ‘Reminder’ option, choose Show Reminders and click ‘Ok’.

Final Words

If the reminder is not reminding you, check out the Microsoft Outlook for making changes and follow the mentioned procedures. This blog will prove helpful in giving an all-around idea about why Outlook appointment reminder not working and how to get it back on track. If you still facing issues with some point then, feel free to contact our technical support team.