Corrupt connection to data file

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TonyR

See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file from
my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal Folders
appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them and
Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I try to
access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I have
all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for all my work
emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder. I have no
problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
 
So what exactly happens when you try to compress?

TonyR said:
See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file from
my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal Folders
appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them and
Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I try to
access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I have
all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for all my work
emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder. I have no
problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
TonyR said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I try to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal Folders I get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
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have you tried making a new profile and adding the old pst to it as the
default delivery location at the time you create the profile?










TonyR said:
See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file from
my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal Folders
appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them and
Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I try to
access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data
file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I have
all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for all my
work emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder. I
have no problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
TonyR said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I try to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal Folders I get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
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Yes i tried that and it has not helped.


Diane Poremsky said:
have you tried making a new profile and adding the old pst to it as the
default delivery location at the time you create the profile?










TonyR said:
See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file
from my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal
Folders appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them
and Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I try
to access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data
file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I
have all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for all
my work emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder.
I have no problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
TonyR said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I try
to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal Folders I
get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
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I never get that far as the error about "operation failed" appears when I
click on the "advanced" button which is one step before the compress.

DL said:
So what exactly happens when you try to compress?

TonyR said:
See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file
from
my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal Folders
appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them
and
Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I try to
access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I
have
all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for all my work
emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder. I have no
problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
TonyR said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I try to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal Folders I get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
For the time being, using the mail applet in control panel (with OL closed)
create a new data file and designate it the default.
Does OL then function correctly?

TonyR said:
Yes i tried that and it has not helped.


Diane Poremsky said:
have you tried making a new profile and adding the old pst to it as the
default delivery location at the time you create the profile?










TonyR said:
See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file
from my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal
Folders appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them
and Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I try
to access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data
file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I
have all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for all
my work emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder.
I have no problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I try
to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal Folders I
get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
I did that and it setup the new data file correctly and I made it the
default and it can be compressed.

I tried to copy the stuff from the old data file to the new one but it will
not copy things like Inbox, Calendar, Contacts etc. Is there a way to copy
them to the new data file?
Tony

DL said:
For the time being, using the mail applet in control panel (with OL
closed)
create a new data file and designate it the default.
Does OL then function correctly?

TonyR said:
Yes i tried that and it has not helped.


Diane Poremsky said:
have you tried making a new profile and adding the old pst to it as the
default delivery location at the time you create the profile?










See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more
details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file
from my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal
Folders appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them
and Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I try
to access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data
file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I
have all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for all
my work emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder.
I have no problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I
try
to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal Folders I
get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What
I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
You dont want to copy the default folders, only the data within them.
Within OL File>Open>Data File......browse to 'old pst'
Then copy a batch of data at a time, and test your 'new' data file before
copying some more
(It may be that something/data in the old file is corrupt)

TonyR said:
I did that and it setup the new data file correctly and I made it the
default and it can be compressed.

I tried to copy the stuff from the old data file to the new one but it will
not copy things like Inbox, Calendar, Contacts etc. Is there a way to copy
them to the new data file?
Tony

DL said:
For the time being, using the mail applet in control panel (with OL
closed)
create a new data file and designate it the default.
Does OL then function correctly?

TonyR said:
Yes i tried that and it has not helped.


have you tried making a new profile and adding the old pst to it as the
default delivery location at the time you create the profile?










See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more
details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file
from my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal
Folders appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them
and Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until
Click to expand...
I
try
to access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the data
file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I
have all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder
Click to expand...
for
all
my work emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work folder.
I have no problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile.
Click to expand...
Only
you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I
try
to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal Folders I
get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What
I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks I have copied all my emails and contacts to the new data file.
I can't seem to copy my calendar items but There are not that many setup for
2007 so I'll just reenter them.

Now I'm faced with trying to close the old file so I can delete it. However,
when I try to close it I'm getting the message "Operation failed. An object
could not be found". Any ideas?

I must add thanks for all your help!

Tony

DL said:
You dont want to copy the default folders, only the data within them.
Within OL File>Open>Data File......browse to 'old pst'
Then copy a batch of data at a time, and test your 'new' data file before
copying some more
(It may be that something/data in the old file is corrupt)

TonyR said:
I did that and it setup the new data file correctly and I made it the
default and it can be compressed.

I tried to copy the stuff from the old data file to the new one but it will
not copy things like Inbox, Calendar, Contacts etc. Is there a way to
copy
them to the new data file?
Tony

DL said:
For the time being, using the mail applet in control panel (with OL
closed)
create a new data file and designate it the default.
Does OL then function correctly?

Yes i tried that and it has not helped.


have you tried making a new profile and adding the old pst to it as the
default delivery location at the time you create the profile?










See below for my original post and a reply, here are some more
details.

I installed Optlook 2003 on my new PC then copied my Outlook.pst file
from my old machine to the new machine and that resulted in 2 Personal
Folders appearing.
I don't recall now exactly how but I managed to get rid of one of them
and Outlook uses the other one (copied from old PC) just fine until I
try
to access the Advanced Options for the folder so I can compress the
data
file.

By "Second Mail Folder" I mean that I have a Personal Folders where I
have all my personal emails and I also have a Work Related folder for
all
my work emails. I have some rules setup to move emails to my Work
folder.
I have no problems compressing this data file.

Any advice on fixing my problem would be welcone.

Thanks,
Tony
_____________________________________________________________________

Unclear post. "Second Mail Folder" means what precisely?
From your incomplete description, you appear to be trying to access an
Outlook data file that has a corrupt connection to your profile. Only
you
could know how you corrupted this profile. Tell us the rest of the
story.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I'm running Outlook 2003 and it is working fine except that when I
try
to
go to the Advanced options of the properties of my Personal
Folders I
get
the message "Operation failed. An object could not be found". What
I'm
trying to do is go in there to compress the data file.

I have a second mail folder and I have no problem compressing it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
TonyR said:
Thanks I have copied all my emails and contacts to the new data file.
I can't seem to copy my calendar items but There are not that many
setup for 2007 so I'll just reenter them.
Click to expand...

Switch to a table view, like By Category, then press CTRL-A to select all
the calendar entries. Copy the selection with right-click and drag or
Edit>Copy to Folder
Now I'm faced with trying to close the old file so I can delete it.
However, when I try to close it I'm getting the message "Operation
failed. An object could not be found". Any ideas?
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With Outlook closed, use Control Panel's Mail applet to remove the PST from
the mail profile.
 
Thanks I have everything copied now but using the Control Panel Mail applet
to remove the old data file will not work since it does not appear when I
start the applet.

I'm at the point where it might be easiest to remove Outlook from my PC,
reinstall to get a clean install then copy the mail,calendar etc. from a
backup .PST into the newly installed Outlook dat file. I'm thinking this
might be the best way to move forward.

Tony
 
TonyR said:
Thanks I have everything copied now but using the Control Panel Mail
applet to remove the old data file will not work since it does not
appear when I start the applet.

I'm at the point where it might be easiest to remove Outlook from my
PC, reinstall to get a clean install then copy the mail,calendar etc.
from a backup .PST into the newly installed Outlook dat file. I'm
thinking this might be the best way to move forward.
Click to expand...

Uninstalling and reinstalling rarely solve Outlook problems. Just start
with a new mail profile.
 
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