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How To Fix “Information Store Cannot Be Opened” on Outlook, Windows 10 & iCloud

In Apple, Application, Fix It, General, How To, Microsoft, Software by Michael Sheehan18 Comments

There is nothing better than upgrading your computer to the latest and greatest operating system. Windows 10 is quite a nice refresh to PCs running Windows 7 or 8 and so when Microsoft announced the free upgrade, I quickly upgraded all of the PCs in my household. The upgrade process went relatively well. I did have to force some upgrades to happen ahead of cycle and do a manual install of Windows 10, but that’s another story. And everything seemed to be working great…until my wife couldn’t access the shared family calendar we had set up in iCloud and in Outlook 2013. Suddenly, kids were missing appointments, outings were being forgotten about, and life as we knew it became completely chaotic.

How To Fix “Information Store Cannot Be Opened” on Outlook, Windows 10 & iCloud - HighTechDad

Well, I’m exaggerating a bit. She was definitely frustrated. When she tried to access the shared iCloud calendar within Microsoft Outlook 2013, she received the following error:

“The set of folders cannot be opened. The information store could not be opened.”

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Cryptic, right?

It turns out, it is quite easy to fix the “Information store cannot be opened” error as it relates to iCloud and Outlook 2013 calendars (and contacts and tasks for that matter). And, for some reason, it was caused by the upgrade to Windows 10.

How to fix “information store cannot be opened” on Outlook, Windows 10 & iCloud

This fix will probably take you just a few minutes.

  1. Exit out of Outlook 2013.
  2. Sign out of iCloud within the iCloud app.
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  3. Open iCloud app. The easiest way to find and open it is to press the Windows key and when the Start Menu (yay, it’s back!) shows up, type in “iCloud” and it will show as an App.
  4. Fully uninstall iCloud app. To uninstall an app, go to the Start Menu, select Settings, then type “uninstall” and select the “Add or Remove Programs.”
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    From there, put “iCloud” in the search box. Once you see the iCloud app, uninstall it.HTD Uninstall iCloud
  5. Download latest iCloud app for Windows: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html
  6. Install iCloud app.
  7. Reboot. You will most likely be prompted to reboot.
  8. Merge (or not) iCloud Outlook items. Here you can merge local calendar, tasks and/or contacts that are in your Outlook with iCloud, making it available wherever else you are using iCloud. Remember, you contacts/tasks/calendar items will now be in iCloud.
  9. Open Outlook and re-enable the iCloud Calendars.

That should be it. Hopefully, when you check off the iCloud Calendars you want to show, you won’t see the “information store cannot be opened” error within Outlook 2013 and Windows 10. It worked on my wife’s computer.

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With calendar syncing working again, a state of calm has settled over our household…at least until we become triple-booked on something.

HTD says: Please leave a comment to let me and others know that this iCloud, Windows 10 and Outlook 2013 error has been resolved.


  • Hey…can I do this on my PC? Newer system 64 bit and I get this msg when I try to open icloud from my Outlook calendar on my hard drive. I hope this makes sense! Thanks.

  • Just tried this again…no luck.

  • Dave Sparks

    worked – thanks

  • CathDaley

    Does this work for contacts too?

  • Thanks for the info! I had a client get this issue and a normal reinstall did not work. Your process did fix it. The odd thing was that they had upgrade to Windows 10 months ago. This problem didn’t manifest itself until after a recent update. So perhaps certain updates to Windows 10 is also triggering this problem.

  • Harold Yule

    Thank you. My calendar and contacts have been restored. Harold

  • OutN1

    Thank you so very much. It worked.

  • Patti

    I didn’t even have to remove and reinstall icloud, I just signed out, signed in again and set up outlook again. YAY! Thank you so much!

  • Mick Westman

    Excellent saved me a lot of work, its a shame Microsoft could not anticipate such issues before providing such catastrophic upgrades!!

  • dittoheadadt

    Ditto. Outlook 2007, Win10Pro. Sign out of iCloud, close, reopen, sign back in. Re-select Calendar et al, done.

  • Chris

    It worked, thanks! I liked the way you put the entire error message in your URL. My ABBYY screenshot reader copied the entire message to memory and pasting it into Google search got your fix. Perhaps you should alert people in your instructions to the quicker possibilty in Ralph & Patti’s comments as a first step?

  • Jennifer

    It is so frustrating when your calendar stops working. I followed your steps and all is back to normal. Yay!!!! Thank you so much for this!!!!

  • Scott

    This was exactly what I was looking for.. THANKS!

  • Kristy McCarthy Weight

    Thank you! I had lost access to my contacts and calendar, but I followed these steps and now there they are. This happened after a Windows 10 update a couple days ago.

  • Carolyn Halliburton

    Wow. I’m so happy I could cry. I’ve been trying to get my contacts into outlook for over a week. You’re the best!

  • good stuff….I’ve had to do this twice in the past few months and here I can find that necessary walk-through.

  • Glad that it worked for you!

  • Terry Terry

    Bless you sir. This is exactly what I needed to find.