Outlook 2007 Task Pane: Operation Failed. An object could not be found

[Andrew Morkunas]

I just noticed recently that the task preview pane located in the To-Do-Bar
area, and also under the calendar view page was blank with the words
"Operation Failed. An object could not be found." There have been no major
changes to my operating system and I did not install any add-ons to Outlook
or Office. Any ideas?

Andrew

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Did you try Office Diagnostics (Help menu) ?

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[Andrew Morkunas]

The diagnoisis found no problems.

Andrew

Did you try Office Diagnostics (Help menu) ?

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I just noticed recently that the task preview pane located in the
To-Do-Bar area, and also under the calendar view page was blank with the
words "Operation Failed. An object could not be found." There have been
no major changes to my operating system and I did not install any add-ons
to Outlook or Office. Any ideas?

Andrew

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Do you have many custom views? If not, open outlook using the /cleanviews
switch. It will wipe out all custom views but resetting the view on the
folder is almost impossible otherwise.

Using switches: http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/switches.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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The diagnoisis found no problems.

Andrew

Did you try Office Diagnostics (Help menu) ?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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I just noticed recently that the task preview pane located in the
To-Do-Bar area, and also under the calendar view page was blank with the
words "Operation Failed. An object could not be found." There have
been no major changes to my operating system and I did not install any
add-ons to Outlook or Office. Any ideas?

Andrew

 

[MCPKinne]

Hi Andrew,

I had a similar problem with my Outlook. I had stopped receiving reminders
and my to-do list disappeared off of my Task Pane.

Here is what I did, see if this works for you.

Go to Tools, Account Settings, Data File tab.

I had two entries for the Personal Folders, both pointing to the same folder
and file. I removed the one entry that wasn't the default.

After that, my task pane worked correctly, all my reminders came back, and
the to-do list showed tasks again.
--
MCPKinne
MCP on XP and Server 2003

Do you have many custom views? If not, open outlook using the /cleanviews
switch. It will wipe out all custom views but resetting the view on the
folder is almost impossible otherwise.

Using switches: http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/switches.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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The diagnoisis found no problems.

Andrew

Did you try Office Diagnostics (Help menu) ?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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I just noticed recently that the task preview pane located in the
To-Do-Bar area, and also under the calendar view page was blank with the
words "Operation Failed. An object could not be found." There have
been no major changes to my operating system and I did not install any
add-ons to Outlook or Office. Any ideas?

Andrew

 

[Jeff]

I just had this issue pop up this morning. This was the exact issue. Deleting
the "duplicate" resolved the issue!

Thanks!

Hi Andrew,

I had a similar problem with my Outlook. I had stopped receiving reminders
and my to-do list disappeared off of my Task Pane.

Here is what I did, see if this works for you.

Go to Tools, Account Settings, Data File tab.

I had two entries for the Personal Folders, both pointing to the same folder
and file. I removed the one entry that wasn't the default.

After that, my task pane worked correctly, all my reminders came back, and
the to-do list showed tasks again.
--
MCPKinne
MCP on XP and Server 2003

Do you have many custom views? If not, open outlook using the /cleanviews
switch. It will wipe out all custom views but resetting the view on the
folder is almost impossible otherwise.

Using switches: http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/switches.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

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The diagnoisis found no problems.

Andrew


Did you try Office Diagnostics (Help menu) ?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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I just noticed recently that the task preview pane located in the
To-Do-Bar area, and also under the calendar view page was blank with the
words "Operation Failed. An object could not be found." There have
been no major changes to my operating system and I did not install any
add-ons to Outlook or Office. Any ideas?

Andrew

 

[MH]

I deleted the duplicate personal folder per your data. Still have the same
message "operation failed. An object could not be found"

MH

Hi Andrew,

I had a similar problem with my Outlook. I had stopped receiving reminders
and my to-do list disappeared off of my Task Pane.

Here is what I did, see if this works for you.

Go to Tools, Account Settings, Data File tab.

I had two entries for the Personal Folders, both pointing to the same folder
and file. I removed the one entry that wasn't the default.

After that, my task pane worked correctly, all my reminders came back, and
the to-do list showed tasks again.
--
MCPKinne
MCP on XP and Server 2003

Do you have many custom views? If not, open outlook using the /cleanviews
switch. It will wipe out all custom views but resetting the view on the
folder is almost impossible otherwise.

Using switches: http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/switches.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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The diagnoisis found no problems.

Andrew


Did you try Office Diagnostics (Help menu) ?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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I just noticed recently that the task preview pane located in the
To-Do-Bar area, and also under the calendar view page was blank with the
words "Operation Failed. An object could not be found." There have
been no major changes to my operating system and I did not install any
add-ons to Outlook or Office. Any ideas?

Andrew

 

[MH]

Correction. I closed and re-opened Outlook and the suggested fix worked ok.
thanks.

MH

I deleted the duplicate personal folder per your data. Still have the same
message "operation failed. An object could not be found"

MH

Hi Andrew,

I had a similar problem with my Outlook. I had stopped receiving reminders
and my to-do list disappeared off of my Task Pane.

Here is what I did, see if this works for you.

Go to Tools, Account Settings, Data File tab.

I had two entries for the Personal Folders, both pointing to the same folder
and file. I removed the one entry that wasn't the default.

After that, my task pane worked correctly, all my reminders came back, and
the to-do list showed tasks again.
--
MCPKinne
MCP on XP and Server 2003

Do you have many custom views? If not, open outlook using the /cleanviews
switch. It will wipe out all custom views but resetting the view on the
folder is almost impossible otherwise.

Using switches: http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/switches.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

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The diagnoisis found no problems.

Andrew


Did you try Office Diagnostics (Help menu) ?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point
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I just noticed recently that the task preview pane located in the
To-Do-Bar area, and also under the calendar view page was blank with the
words "Operation Failed. An object could not be found." There have
been no major changes to my operating system and I did not install any
add-ons to Outlook or Office. Any ideas?

Andrew