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The data file 'Mailbox - Jon Pryor (Excell Data Corporation)' was not closed properly.

This file is being checked for problems.

I shutdown every Friday afternoon before I leave for the weekend. On week days I lockthe workstations. Every time I do, I close LookOut around 5 to 10 minutes before I log off. You'd think that this would give the app enough time to catch up & properly close down. Apparently no amount of time is sufficient!


This seems to occur a few times per week. It occurs EVERY time I shut down. It occurs occasionaly when I lock the work station. I've spent nearly an hour trying to de-fark my e-mail. I finally had to log on from my XP test machine & read my e-mail. Vista is still "analyzing" the error.

It's now working... after rebooting the system... TWICE so it can reinitialize the Exchange connection.

I've never used the stand-alone application. For work purposes, I've been using the Internet-based version.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I've never used the stand-alone application. For work purposes, I've been using the Internet-based version.

I use the full suite at home & have never had this problem. The only issue I have accessing my work account from home via web based is that its SOOOOO SLOOOOOOW sometimes. I could almost drive th 40 miles to work & check it in the time it occcasionally takes to open received e-mail items web based. Still faster than the Visa account on any Monday morning.

The other issue I have on occasion is it's "dropping" of outgoing e-mails. This happens to most of the reports & send if I've saved them to Drafts. It will push them to the Outbox... but never send them. They "look" like they've been sent, but then a day of so later there they are, still gathering dust in the outbox... of they're back in Drafts... without the final changes saved.

The entire Office 2007 suite sucks.

Microsoft is driving people to Open Office.org.

No kidding.
I run Open Office on my Mac.

The problem could be attributed to a "desktop search" or indexing program. I've seen this quite a few times at work actually. Google Desktop or Microsoft Search keeps the file that holds your mail open for up to and beyond 30 seconds while it finishes it's indexing.

If the Outlook process is terminated before the search program finishes with it, Outlook complains when you open it next.

Solutions?

1. Uninstall Google Desktop / Microsoft Search
2. Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to the Task manager and then the Processes tab. Wait until OUTLOOK.EXE disappears before you actually shut down.
3. Switch to a different mail client.
4. Live with it.

=) Hope this helps. I'd be glad to help you out more if I can.

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Originally posted by Veeper:
The problem could be attributed to a "desktop search" or indexing program. I've seen this quite a few times at work actually. Google Desktop or Microsoft Search keeps the file that holds your mail open for up to and beyond 30 seconds while it finishes it's indexing.

If the Outlook process is terminated before the search program finishes with it, Outlook complains when you open it next.

Solutions?

1. Uninstall Google Desktop / Microsoft Search
2. Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to the Task manager and then the Processes tab. Wait until OUTLOOK.EXE disappears before you actually shut down.
3. Switch to a different mail client.
4. Live with it.

=) Hope this helps. I'd be glad to help you out more if I can.

I'll take door number 4! I'm stuck with it. Search keeps it opened indefinitely in this case... unless you go in & manually kill the app.

It's interesting because the issue gets worse every time. It takes longer to recover each time this occurs.

Screw it. I only have two weeks left. I'm just going to leave everything turned on & do my part to contribute to global climate change & the wasting of energy resources.

Heh. This is why I never bother with PST / OST files anymore.

Ugh I don't even want to try and remember how much time I spent trying to fix people's mail problems before MS decided to fix the ~1.89gb PST filesize limit.

Yeah. Outlook is a joke.

I had the same problem and I fixed it by turning off the "check for mail every XX minutes". Now it only checks for mail when I click the send/receive button.

I don't need it to check my email when I'm not looking at the email app anyway.

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Originally posted by Veeper:
... Yeah. Outlook is a joke.

Find me a replacement and I'll gladly switch.

I logged in to my account last night from home - web based Exchange server. The weekly reports from the last two weeks are showing in the Outbox. They weren't there before. They aren't showing in the Outbox of my work account. They aren' listed as Sent Mail. I cannot get them to send from my online account. I have NO IDEA if these went out or not. Tonight I'll manually copy\paste them into new e-mails on my peronsal account - e-mail them back to work from that account & then copy\patse again to forward them. WTELH!?

My last act here is going to be running a network format on both of these machines just before I trot out the door!

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Originally posted by Veeper:
Heh. This is why I never bother with PST / OST files anymore.

Ugh I don't even want to try and remember how much time I spent trying to fix people's mail problems before MS decided to fix the ~1.89gb PST filesize limit.

Yeah. Outlook is a joke.

What do you bother with, now? (Server and client.)

We're going from the very stable Novell GroupWise to LookOut! er... Outlook.

I'm not a big fan either.

I switched to Linux a few years back, and Evolution is a pretty decent clone of Outlook, only I think it's a hell of a lot less annoying.

They do have a windows version of evolution now, though I don't know how good it is-- it can connect to exchange servers, do all the calendaring and memo stuff that outlook does, and it's free. Might give it a look.

http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/

If it's an exchange account, then it sounds like you local .OST file is corrupt.

close Outlook, delete the .OST, and reopen outlook. It should recache from the exchange servers, and your mailbox will work.

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Originally posted by belfasttim:
I switched to Linux a few years back, and Evolution is a pretty decent clone of Outlook, only I think it's a hell of a lot less annoying.

They do have a windows version of evolution now, though I don't know how good it is-- ...

I just tried it. Don't waste your time on the Windows version. At least not yet.

It has about 40% of the features that Outlook has and the integration with office apps is non-existent. It's not quite at the "outlook killer" level.

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Originally posted by mark123:
I just tried it. Don't waste your time on the Windows version. At least not yet.

It has about 40% of the features that Outlook has and the integration with office apps is non-existent. It's not quite at the "outlook killer" level.

bummer. thanks for the info.

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Originally posted by belfasttim:
bummer. thanks for the info.

I'm sure it'll mature and be viable in the future. Right now it crashes a lot. At least it did for me.

For an app to think of taking out Outlook it'll have to be more than just an email, calendar and to do app. It looks like it could take out Outlook Express but not Office Outlook itself. I've found that many people don't realize how very extensive Outlook really is. I'm not sure I've scratched the surface on it yet.

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Originally posted by Spectre:
The entire Office 2007 suite sucks.

Here, here!

It was as though they decided to just CHANGE everything, regardless of whether that change was for the better or not. . .

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:

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Originally posted by Spectre:
The entire Office 2007 suite sucks.

Here, here!

It was as though they decided to just CHANGE everything, regardless of whether that change was for the better or not. . .

Nature of the beast... apparently.

I'm dealing with some of that today & now that the builds are available for a wider download a lot of people are e-mailing a resounding WTF?!