Reminders often do not work

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Krzysztof Lebecki

Hello,



I have Outlook 2000 SP-3 (with all actual patches) with a maybe old PST
file. I simply want to keep all my old mails, contacts, etc. I manage it, of
course, deleting huge mails for instance. The PST file is 161 MB large.

The Reminders are sometimes working, sometimes the stop to appear. In this
case I have to close Outlook, re-start it and then they are shown. But this
is not the way it should be solved, you agree probably.



I tried already several ways, I searched the Internet. This is what I have
tried:

/cleanreminders switch.

/resetfolders switch.

/cleanfreebusy switch.

Scanpst.exe (small errors found, copy saved as C:\Documents and
Settings\KLM\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\*.bak).



I can also try to create a new PST file from scratch and to copy all old
data. But I saw once a post where the author claimed he did it with no
special positive effect.



I have a feeling that my PST is corrupted in a subtle way. Do you know maybe
any fine PST scanners?

Well, any other suggestions are of course welcome.



Regards, Kris
 
Did you run scanpst until no further errors were found? Also, close Outlook
and rename the .srs and .dat files (frmcache, outcmd, etc.) and then re-open
Outlook. If you have an .OST, delete it. These are files that will recreate
themselves when you open Outlook.
Also, you can try creating a new profile as well to see if that helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm
 
Krzysztof Lebecki said:
I have Outlook 2000 SP-3 (with all actual patches) with a maybe old
PST file. I simply want to keep all my old mails, contacts, etc. I
manage it, of course, deleting huge mails for instance. The PST file
is 161 MB large.
Click to expand...

That's not a real large PST. Have you tried a new mail profile? The method
used to do that is dependent on your mode. The second line of Help>About
will tell you.
 
K. Orland said:
Did you run scanpst until no further errors were found?
Click to expand...
Yep. I have run the scanpst just now. With no error warnings.
Also, close Outlook
and rename the .srs and .dat files (frmcache, outcmd, etc.) and then re-open
Outlook. If you have an .OST, delete it. These are files that will recreate
themselves when you open Outlook.
Click to expand...
I have found only frmcache.dat and outcmd.dat.
Also, you can try creating a new profile as well to see if that helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm
Click to expand...
Thus, maybe not the PST itself is wrong, but some other configuration
issues?

OK. I will test the environment now, after these two files removal. Later I
will follow your account procedure.
And I will come back here ;)

Thx, KL
 
Hello again,

The profile recreation procedure did not help, either. BTW I tried to follow
the described path, but there were small differencies: I did not have to
switch to the old PST file baceuse the new PST file was want created.
What now?

(how is it possible that for many years I had no problems with Outlook? Did
the MS guys change something some time ago?)

Kris
 
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