Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes my
outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried everything--updates,
uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all folders
from being overloaded, etc.
Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of the
"send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other features
of Outlook.
Is anyone else having this issue?

What are your send/receive settings configured to, how many minutes?
Try setting to 10 minutes
If you have an antivirus application intergrated with Outlook, uninstal it.

"Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:A8749AA0-D5F6-4D6A-A973-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes my
> outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried
> everything--updates,
> uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all
> folders
> from being overloaded, etc.
> Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of the
> "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other
> features
> of Outlook.
> Is anyone else having this issue?
>

"DL" wrote:

> What are your send/receive settings configured to, how many minutes?
> Try setting to 10 minutes
> If you have an antivirus application intergrated with Outlook, uninstal it.
>
> "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:A8749AA0-D5F6-4D6A-A973-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes my
> > outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried
> > everything--updates,
> > uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all
> > folders
> > from being overloaded, etc.
> > Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of the
> > "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other
> > features
> > of Outlook.
> > Is anyone else having this issue?
> >
>
>
> There is no antivirus application with Outlook on my station. My settings are for 5 minutes. Is there a way to stop or "shut off" the task of synchronizing folders? That's the main problem.

'Synchronising folders' is outlook performing an auto send/receive.
Adjust the setting to 10 minutes

"Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:CFC03CE0-7CFF-47F1-94D0-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> What are your send/receive settings configured to, how many minutes?
>> Try setting to 10 minutes
>> If you have an antivirus application intergrated with Outlook, uninstal
>> it.
>>
>> "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:A8749AA0-D5F6-4D6A-A973-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes
>> > my
>> > outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried
>> > everything--updates,
>> > uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all
>> > folders
>> > from being overloaded, etc.
>> > Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of
>> > the
>> > "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other
>> > features
>> > of Outlook.
>> > Is anyone else having this issue?
>> >
>>
>>
>> There is no antivirus application with Outlook on my station. My
>> settings are for 5 minutes. Is there a way to stop or "shut off" the
>> task of synchronizing folders? That's the main problem.

I am having the same problem. My outlook will not stop synchronizing
folders. Plus, when I hit "Send/Recieve" messages on the tool bar, it will
not stop. (It will get up to 900+ tasks complete and keep going. I have to
go into my task manager & stop the program.)

I've also turned off my antivirus scanning for outgoing messages and changed
my auto send/receive from 30 minutes to 10 minutes. No go.

I notice my hard drive keeps going and my fan is working overtime, too.

"DL" wrote:

> 'Synchronising folders' is outlook performing an auto send/receive.
> Adjust the setting to 10 minutes
>
> "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:CFC03CE0-7CFF-47F1-94D0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> >
> > "DL" wrote:
> >
> >> What are your send/receive settings configured to, how many minutes?
> >> Try setting to 10 minutes
> >> If you have an antivirus application intergrated with Outlook, uninstal
> >> it.
> >>
> >> "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:A8749AA0-D5F6-4D6A-A973-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> > Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes
> >> > my
> >> > outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried
> >> > everything--updates,
> >> > uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all
> >> > folders
> >> > from being overloaded, etc.
> >> > Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of
> >> > the
> >> > "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other
> >> > features
> >> > of Outlook.
> >> > Is anyone else having this issue?
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> There is no antivirus application with Outlook on my station. My
> >> settings are for 5 minutes. Is there a way to stop or "shut off" the
> >> task of synchronizing folders? That's the main problem.
>
>
>

I went to the discussions under "synchronizing folders" and found, literally,
hundreds of posts regarding this issue. It seems everyone has something to
say about it, but no one has any answers. I have completely stopped using
the Outlook and use another mail program for my office. I can't stand to
hear the fan running all the time while the folders are synchronizing.


"Kara A. Peterson" wrote:

> I am having the same problem. My outlook will not stop synchronizing
> folders. Plus, when I hit "Send/Recieve" messages on the tool bar, it will
> not stop. (It will get up to 900+ tasks complete and keep going. I have to
> go into my task manager & stop the program.)
>
> I've also turned off my antivirus scanning for outgoing messages and changed
> my auto send/receive from 30 minutes to 10 minutes. No go.
>
> I notice my hard drive keeps going and my fan is working overtime, too.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
> > 'Synchronising folders' is outlook performing an auto send/receive.
> > Adjust the setting to 10 minutes
> >
> > "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:CFC03CE0-7CFF-47F1-94D0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >
> > >
> > > "DL" wrote:
> > >
> > >> What are your send/receive settings configured to, how many minutes?
> > >> Try setting to 10 minutes
> > >> If you have an antivirus application intergrated with Outlook, uninstal
> > >> it.
> > >>
> > >> "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > >> news:A8749AA0-D5F6-4D6A-A973-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >> > Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes
> > >> > my
> > >> > outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried
> > >> > everything--updates,
> > >> > uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all
> > >> > folders
> > >> > from being overloaded, etc.
> > >> > Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of
> > >> > the
> > >> > "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other
> > >> > features
> > >> > of Outlook.
> > >> > Is anyone else having this issue?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> There is no antivirus application with Outlook on my station. My
> > >> settings are for 5 minutes. Is there a way to stop or "shut off" the
> > >> task of synchronizing folders? That's the main problem.
> >
> >
> >

It is often the case that you have to completely uninstall any anti virus
application, and or spam application in order to completely remove it from
Outlook, and if using Norton & also I believe McAfee, use the utility
available on their sites to 'completely remove'.
Untill that is done you cannot identify the cause/problem & rectify it


"Kara A. Peterson" <Kara A. (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message newsA02B24F-1C39-42BC-9D54-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am having the same problem. My outlook will not stop synchronizing
> folders. Plus, when I hit "Send/Recieve" messages on the tool bar, it
> will
> not stop. (It will get up to 900+ tasks complete and keep going. I have
> to
> go into my task manager & stop the program.)
>
> I've also turned off my antivirus scanning for outgoing messages and
> changed
> my auto send/receive from 30 minutes to 10 minutes. No go.
>
> I notice my hard drive keeps going and my fan is working overtime, too.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> 'Synchronising folders' is outlook performing an auto send/receive.
>> Adjust the setting to 10 minutes
>>
>> "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:CFC03CE0-7CFF-47F1-94D0-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >
>> >
>> > "DL" wrote:
>> >
>> >> What are your send/receive settings configured to, how many minutes?
>> >> Try setting to 10 minutes
>> >> If you have an antivirus application intergrated with Outlook,
>> >> uninstal
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> "Sandra" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> >> news:A8749AA0-D5F6-4D6A-A973-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> > Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which
>> >> > causes
>> >> > my
>> >> > outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried
>> >> > everything--updates,
>> >> > uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all
>> >> > folders
>> >> > from being overloaded, etc.
>> >> > Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of
>> >> > the
>> >> > "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other
>> >> > features
>> >> > of Outlook.
>> >> > Is anyone else having this issue?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> There is no antivirus application with Outlook on my station. My
>> >> settings are for 5 minutes. Is there a way to stop or "shut off" the
>> >> task of synchronizing folders? That's the main problem.
>>
>>
>>

Microsoft is apparently blissfully unaware of the bazillion posts on the
subject of "OUTLOOK is Synchronizing folders" and "can't receive emails from
good accounts" -- that leaves us all floundering in the dark.

I am posting because I have seen the situation mean many things and I've
seen few messages summarizing the possibilities. The usual suspect is nothing
more than a super-long email on a slow connection to a POP3 account. Another
is a bad email message in the inbox which must be purged through an Outlook
independent mechanism such as mail2web (works for me, there are others). It
can also mean a corrupt PST file or that the PST file has exceeded its size
limit.

The message (or it's similar earlier-version manifestations like
never-ending send-receive errors, timeouts or apparent Outlook related
computer lockup) is of no value in discerning the difference among these
cases. In fact AFAIK Microsoft attributes the message only to Exchange Server
setups which most of us do not have. If Microsoft was as troubled as we (by
the floundering they induce) they might improve the indicators. Don't hold
your breath.

Today I received some 30MB to get 10MB of email. In other words some other
unknowable process was competing with Outlook for bandwidth (another Windows
weakness where the guilty process cannot be determined -- I shouldn't have
picked that auto-update option when I installed blatzfarb back in '04 -- now
I'm stuck with it 'cause I can't find it). I mention this because the
statusbar message indicated that I was receiving mail at about 1 byte/second
(i.e. 130B of 11.3MB) which brought me back into the forums. Of course it was
wrong and so was most of the advice about how to fix it other than "Wait".

Another relevant fact is that Outlook doesn't necessarily go away when
closed --especially when processing email. This can be confirmed on the
Windows Task Manager processes tab. So you might think that you've stopped
Outlook only to be misled in your troubleshooting. And be sure to ponder "PST
corruption" before choosing End Process!

Oh, and older versions of Outlook don't restart until the hidden task
terminates which oftimes never happens. Hence reboot is ofttimes added to the
confusion.

About mail2web -- A guy at my Qwest once "hinted" me to the site which is
browser-based and independent of any ISP. He said he couldn't purge the
incomplete mailbox hog that was sticking the process for me but that I could
through the service. The important difference is that it only lists the
header and allows deletion (Outlook using POP3 is mindlessly devoted to
downloading the entire content before you can see it or act on it). It
worked and now I have a back door method of previewing my mail whenever
things get confusing. The security implications are your own business -- I
decided I was not risking that much myself -- and no, I'm not affiliated,
this is not spam.

BTW: back in time I used an ISP that provided such a browser based service
of its own complete with secure login and encyption -- much better than
Qwest's backdoor solution -- perhaps yours?

About email induced "lockup". I've researched it without too much
enlightenment. Other than Outlook restart problems (above) it seems to be
excrutiating system slowness during super-long messages rather than actual
lockup. I don't see it since I switched to a faster CPU and an ISDN modem
that is USB attached. Do you suppose that the internal "Win-modem" practise
of CPU cycle stealing has anything to do with it? I'm still wondering...

So today, my trouble was merely bandwidth and a supermessage (fixed by
"wait"). Last time it was PST oversize (fixed by archiving and compacting)
and another time was PST corruption (search on scanPST for a fix). And I've
seen plenty of the functionally equivalent "stuck" system.

Hope this helps with your dilemma.

I was having the same problem for the last 2 days and finally tracked it down
to a bad outgoing email address. I had an email in my outbox with an invalid
outgoing address. I had typed the name of the person and let Outlook
automatically fill in the contact information from a my address book.
Unfortunately, the contact had changed or become corrupted and did not
contain an email address any longer. Why this causes Outlook to behave this
way is a mystery for Microsoft to solve and FIX!

If you have any messages in your outbox, open them and double-click on the
recipient name. If an error message box appears (Invalid EntryID or
something), then this is your problem.

"Sandra" wrote:

> Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes my
> outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried everything--updates,
> uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all folders
> from being overloaded, etc.
> Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of the
> "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other features
> of Outlook.
> Is anyone else having this issue?
>

"David" wrote:

> I was having the same problem for the last 2 days and finally tracked it down
> to a bad outgoing email address. I had an email in my outbox with an invalid
> outgoing address. I had typed the name of the person and let Outlook
> automatically fill in the contact information from a my address book.
> Unfortunately, the contact had changed or become corrupted and did not
> contain an email address any longer. Why this causes Outlook to behave this
> way is a mystery for Microsoft to solve and FIX!
>
> If you have any messages in your outbox, open them and double-click on the
> recipient name. If an error message box appears (Invalid EntryID or
> something), then this is your problem.
>
> "Sandra" wrote:
>
> > Outlook 2007 keeps "synchronizing folders" continuously, which causes my
> > outgoing mail to get stuck in the Outbox. I have tried everything--updates,
> > uninstalling and re-installing, deleting all old emails to keep all folders
> > from being overloaded, etc.
> > Is there something I'm missing? I can't use Outlook now, because of the
> > "send" issue. I am using another mail program, but miss the other features
> > of Outlook.
> > Is anyone else having this issue?
> >