How would I retrieve all the dismissed reminders in Outlook 2010?
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It's a pity that Dismiss doesn't "do what you mean" and only dismiss the reminder once for a reoccurring reminder, rather than forever.– Matthew LockNov 26, 2013 at 3:18
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It's an old question admittedly but the solution is the second answer posted below (and should be accepted ;) )– JamesDec 19, 2013 at 14:57
4 Answers
Your question asks to "retrieve all dismissed reminders". I am not sure if, by "retrieve", you mean to view a list of all dismissed reminders or if you want to "undismiss" them. I've been looking for a solution to the latter for a long time and just now stumbled upon it. You first open the meeting or appointment (I double-click the event in my calendar). At the top, you will see this:
If you dismissed the reminder then the Reminder field will say None. Change it to a new interval and then click Save & Close. You should get the reminder again.
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You must also select a reminder that did not pass, otherwise it will go back to "none" after you save. Jul 31, 2017 at 6:49
It is not possible to restore already dismissed reminders.
But you can open the calendar view and search by modification date:
In Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 use modified:date format in the search field.
For example, I would type modified:2.10.2012
to see items I might have dismissed today
It's not 100% accurate as many things can modify the item, but if you do this soon after dismissing the reminders, it should be 100% accurate.
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2I find it very hard to believe that Outlook 2010 has absolutely no way at all to restore an accidentally dismissed meeting reminder. Dec 19, 2012 at 17:16
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I use Outlook daily and would be happy to upvote your answer where you describe how to restore them– Siim KDec 19, 2012 at 21:20
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2At least in outlook 2013 "today" is an acceptable value too, so to find dismissed calendar items you can search for "modified:today". Also works for tasks.– WaldenLAug 7, 2014 at 13:13
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For some of us,
modified:8.22.2022
does not work, butmodified:8/22/2022
works. Aug 23, 2022 at 5:58
I accidentally dismissed some old reminders and the other answers didn't work for me for recovering them, so I restored a recent backup and reverted to that temporarily which brought them up. If you don't have a backup, there's a possibility you can use the "Restore previous versions" option in the right-click menu of the PST file (or its parent folder) in Windows explorer to get a recent version.
To be safe, I closed Outlook, backed up my current PST, and disabled my network connection before restoring the old PST.
If your reminders are from emails you can sort by date then flag status. You'll see all the emails with red flags. For each one add a new reminder.