Keeping Outlook contacts on PC after signing out of icloud

[Brendan]

I use outlook 2010 calendars and contact information even when offline. I logged into icloud and my data all zoomed off into the cloud leaving outlook completely denuded of calendar and contact data. When I did this previously (2014) as I closed or signed out of icloud I was prompted to save a backup offline/pc which when selected put all my data back into outlook. This time this does not seem to be an option. The only thing that has changed appart from the never-ending updates, is that I move to Windows 10. I am now at a loss because I need my data resident on my PC. Please can you tell me how to copy data back from iCloud to my PC for use when offline.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

If you are just offline, you don't need to sign out of icloud - data won't sync but you'll have whatever was synced.

If you are going to stop using icloud and you don't get the option to make a backup, you can move or copy items in the icloud folders to the outlook folders. (Use list view in the calendar).

I haven't tested signing out of icloud 5.1, so maybe they did remove it - i know it often resulted in duplicate and triplicate copies because users made a copy every time it asked.