Whenever I open Outlook I get the following message:
"The data file <filename> was not closed properly. This file is being checked for problems."
An icon of two gears has appeared in the lower right hand corner and sits there for three days already now.
How can I get rid of this message and these gears?
Recently, some emails that I receive are directly delivered to the Deleted Items folder instead of being delivered to the Inbox.
I also fear that some messages are even permanently deleted without me knowing.
Why does this happen and how can I get everything delivered to my Inbox again?
Upon archiving, I got the following message:
Error while archiving folder “[folder name]” in store "Personal Folders".
The file [path]\archive.pst has reached its maximum size. To reduce the amount of data in this file, select some items that you no longer need, and then permanently delete them by pressing SHIFT+DELETE. You could also consider using the new Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst) introduced with Outlook 2003 that provides greater capacity for storing items and folders.
How do I use the "new Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst)" to increase archive size?
I got a new PC with Outlook 365 on it. I copied the pst-file from my old computer running an older version of Outlook to the new one but now I'm missing all my Categories in Outlook.
How do I get them to into Outlook 365?
When I try to start Outlook, I get the following question;
"Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?"
If I click "No", nothing happens. If I click "Yes", I get the error;
"No profiles have been created. To create a new profile, use the Mail icon in the Control Panel."
This error is then directly followed by;
"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists."
I went to the Mail applet in Control Panel and my mail profile and mail account is configured as it should but still Outlook does not open. I'm the administrator of this computer;
How can I get Outlook to work again?
I know I can request a Read Receipt to find out when someone read a message that I sent. However, I'd like to know when I read a message that someone else has sent to me.
For instance, this would be especially useful to me for informational messages which did not require me to reply but are important enough to know when I’ve actually read it.
Is this information registered somewhere in Outlook or in a log file?
Is there any way in Outlook 2007 to get reminded more visually that my Out of Office is still on?
With Outlook 2003 you would get a dialog box for which I had to click "Yes" or "No" to leave it on or turn it off before I gained access to Outlook.
Is there any way to get that dialog back?
I’m working with Excel sheets that contain a lot of email addresses as well.
When updating a field, it turns the email address in a clickable “mailto” link and when I’m not careful when clicking, it opens up a new email in Outlook.
As I have no intention to email anyone directly from these lists, but do work a lot with these sheets, this is getting annoying quite fast.
Is there any way to disable this behavior in Excel?
Yesterday’s post got several responses with questions about a “You’ve got mail” voice. Some people would like to know how to turn it on and others would like to know how to turn it off.
When inserting a link to a file on a mapped network share, the link is automatically converted to a UNC path. So a link that used to be;
H:\filename.txt
turns to;
\\servername\username\filename.txt
In the above example the H:\-drive is the user’s home drive and the UNC path now points to the home location of the sender instead of the receiver.
This is causing us some issues as we often place personal report files on the user’s home drive and then send them an email with a link to notify them of this. Our Human Resource department for instance does this in bulk and sends out a standardized email to all of the users at once with the H:\-drive reference.
Is there a way to configure Outlook that the drive path reference to the mapped network share is kept and that it won’t be converted to a UNC path?
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