Outlook Today has disappeared!

[Deep Thought]

Do not know what the hell my Outlook 2000 is up to but I noticed today that
when it starts up my default view in the main panel is "Personal
Folders".... the short cuts down the left column (e.g. Calendar,
Contacts...) work but the Outlook Today shortcut takes me back to the
Personal folders display.... how do I get my Outlook Today view back?
If I click on the Outlook Today button on the toolbar I get a message
"Outlook could not start because a location to send/receive email could not
be found..." - refers to the Mail option in control panel to change
settings.... this might be a clue?
(I use Outlook Express for email/newsgroups and after recently reinstalling
Outlook 2000 I notice that my address book in OE has disappeared - possibly
been deleted. A search for .wab files on my HDD shows ONE file (size 100KB
which seems smaller than I remembered it...) - so I tried importing it back
into the OE address book. The action was confirmed as complete but still the
address book is empty).

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Configure the page you want Outlook Today to use in the Properties of the
Personal Folders file > Home Page Tab.

You did not state what mail support mode of Outlook 2000 you are using and
whether you had configured OE to use your Outlook Contacts as its data
source.
Open the Address Book in OE, go to Tools > Options... and see if re-enabling
sharing restores your address book. You may not have been using the WAB at
all, but you are the only one who could know what you were doing before.

 

[Deep Thought]

My OE address book does not seem to offer me the option of re-enabling
sharing...

Some more info: I need Outlook for the Calendar/Contacts/tasks features... I
recently re-installed it and had to set the mail service as
Corporate/Workgroup as a device I use to synchronise with Outlook would not
recognise Outlook until I had changed to this mail setting from my previous
Internet Mail setting (Ericsson R380 cellphone/pda).

I noticed that Outlook Express had an empty address book and as stated I
tried to import what I thought was the right file (xxx.wab) - no errors
during the import process but address book still empty. Incidentally the
Contacts list in Outlook appears to be unscathed and intact but if I click
on the Address Book option on tool bar I also get another empty address book
(admit I had never tried opening the address book in Outlook before so
cannot say for sure if it was ever populated). At the time I noticed my OE
address book was empty the Outlook Today function was fine.... so it is
clearly something I have tinkered with - as I recall I made the decision to
try and allow Outlook to be able to send/receive email in view of lack of
address book in OE... I made no major changes I just went to the
Tools/Services option and thought that by adding a service for my email
(duplicating log-in, dial-up settings I use in OE) my email from Outlook
would work (it did not - just kept sending email I created and "sent"
straight back into my Outlook Inbox with an undeliverable message). I
thought I had done nothing major here so I deleted this new service I had
created concluding I would never get Outlook to work for mail so back to
square one... however I now get the problems I have described... essentially
the default opening view is PERSONAL FOLDERS and the Outlook Today button
just takes me always to the same view.

Configure the page you want Outlook Today to use in the Properties of the

Personal Folders file > Home Page Tab.

You did not state what mail support mode of Outlook 2000 you are using and
whether you had configured OE to use your Outlook Contacts as its data
source.
Open the Address Book in OE, go to Tools > Options... and see if re-enabling
sharing restores your address book. You may not have been using the WAB at
all, but you are the only one who could know what you were doing before.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Do not know what the hell my Outlook 2000 is up to but I noticed today that
when it starts up my default view in the main panel is "Personal
Folders".... the short cuts down the left column (e.g. Calendar,
Contacts...) work but the Outlook Today shortcut takes me back to the
Personal folders display.... how do I get my Outlook Today view back?
If I click on the Outlook Today button on the toolbar I get a message
"Outlook could not start because a location to send/receive email could not
be found..." - refers to the Mail option in control panel to change
settings.... this might be a clue?
(I use Outlook Express for email/newsgroups and after recently reinstalling
Outlook 2000 I notice that my address book in OE has disappeared - possibly
been deleted. A search for .wab files on my HDD shows ONE file (size 100KB
which seems smaller than I remembered it...) - so I tried importing it back
into the OE address book. The action was confirmed as complete but still the
address book is empty).

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Most likely you were using Internet Mail Only mode of Outlook before, which
permits sharing of your Outlook Contacts with OE.
Corp/Workgroup does not. So that is why the option is not there.
If you were sharing with OE before, most likely you were never using a WAB.
IF you want to use a WAB now, you'll have to export your Contacts from
Outlook into a format that OE can import, like CSV.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My OE address book does not seem to offer me the option of re-enabling
sharing...

Some more info: I need Outlook for the Calendar/Contacts/tasks features... I
recently re-installed it and had to set the mail service as
Corporate/Workgroup as a device I use to synchronise with Outlook would not
recognise Outlook until I had changed to this mail setting from my previous
Internet Mail setting (Ericsson R380 cellphone/pda).

I noticed that Outlook Express had an empty address book and as stated I
tried to import what I thought was the right file (xxx.wab) - no errors
during the import process but address book still empty. Incidentally the
Contacts list in Outlook appears to be unscathed and intact but if I click
on the Address Book option on tool bar I also get another empty address book
(admit I had never tried opening the address book in Outlook before so
cannot say for sure if it was ever populated). At the time I noticed my OE
address book was empty the Outlook Today function was fine.... so it is
clearly something I have tinkered with - as I recall I made the decision to
try and allow Outlook to be able to send/receive email in view of lack of
address book in OE... I made no major changes I just went to the
Tools/Services option and thought that by adding a service for my email
(duplicating log-in, dial-up settings I use in OE) my email from Outlook
would work (it did not - just kept sending email I created and "sent"
straight back into my Outlook Inbox with an undeliverable message). I
thought I had done nothing major here so I deleted this new service I had
created concluding I would never get Outlook to work for mail so back to
square one... however I now get the problems I have described... essentially
the default opening view is PERSONAL FOLDERS and the Outlook Today button
just takes me always to the same view.

Configure the page you want Outlook Today to use in the Properties of

the

Personal Folders file > Home Page Tab.

You did not state what mail support mode of Outlook 2000 you are using and
whether you had configured OE to use your Outlook Contacts as its data
source.
Open the Address Book in OE, go to Tools > Options... and see if re-enabling
sharing restores your address book. You may not have been using the WAB at
all, but you are the only one who could know what you were doing before.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Do not know what the hell my Outlook 2000 is up to but I noticed today that
when it starts up my default view in the main panel is "Personal
Folders".... the short cuts down the left column (e.g. Calendar,
Contacts...) work but the Outlook Today shortcut takes me back to the
Personal folders display.... how do I get my Outlook Today view back?
If I click on the Outlook Today button on the toolbar I get a message
"Outlook could not start because a location to send/receive email

could
not

be found..." - refers to the Mail option in control panel to change
settings.... this might be a clue?
(I use Outlook Express for email/newsgroups and after recently reinstalling
Outlook 2000 I notice that my address book in OE has disappeared - possibly
been deleted. A search for .wab files on my HDD shows ONE file (size 100KB
which seems smaller than I remembered it...) - so I tried importing it back
into the OE address book. The action was confirmed as complete but

still
the

address book is empty).

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It's a feature found only in the internet mode - you can edit the
registry to use it in other versions. Note that it will cause Outlook to
remain loaded in a hidden state and can prevent Windows from closing
properly.

http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/news.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: Deep Thought [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Saturday, June 12, 2004 11:57 AM
Posted To: microsoft.public.outlook
Conversation: Outlook Today has disappeared!
Subject: Re: Outlook Today has disappeared!

My OE address book does not seem to offer me the option of re-enabling
sharing...

Some more info: I need Outlook for the Calendar/Contacts/tasks
features... I
recently re-installed it and had to set the mail service as
Corporate/Workgroup as a device I use to synchronise with Outlook would
not
recognise Outlook until I had changed to this mail setting from my
previous
Internet Mail setting (Ericsson R380 cellphone/pda).

I noticed that Outlook Express had an empty address book and as stated I
tried to import what I thought was the right file (xxx.wab) - no errors
during the import process but address book still empty. Incidentally the
Contacts list in Outlook appears to be unscathed and intact but if I
click
on the Address Book option on tool bar I also get another empty address
book
(admit I had never tried opening the address book in Outlook before so
cannot say for sure if it was ever populated). At the time I noticed my
OE
address book was empty the Outlook Today function was fine.... so it is
clearly something I have tinkered with - as I recall I made the decision
to
try and allow Outlook to be able to send/receive email in view of lack
of
address book in OE... I made no major changes I just went to the
Tools/Services option and thought that by adding a service for my email
(duplicating log-in, dial-up settings I use in OE) my email from Outlook
would work (it did not - just kept sending email I created and "sent"
straight back into my Outlook Inbox with an undeliverable message). I
thought I had done nothing major here so I deleted this new service I
had
created concluding I would never get Outlook to work for mail so back to
square one... however I now get the problems I have described...
essentially
the default opening view is PERSONAL FOLDERS and the Outlook Today
button
just takes me always to the same view.

Configure the page you want Outlook Today to use in the Properties of the

Personal Folders file > Home Page Tab.

You did not state what mail support mode of Outlook 2000 you are using and
whether you had configured OE to use your Outlook Contacts as its data
source.
Open the Address Book in OE, go to Tools > Options... and see if re-enabling
sharing restores your address book. You may not have been using the WAB at
all, but you are the only one who could know what you were doing before.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Do not know what the hell my Outlook 2000 is up to but I noticed

today

that
when it starts up my default view in the main panel is "Personal
Folders".... the short cuts down the left column (e.g. Calendar,
Contacts...) work but the Outlook Today shortcut takes me back to the
Personal folders display.... how do I get my Outlook Today view back?
If I click on the Outlook Today button on the toolbar I get a message
"Outlook could not start because a location to send/receive email

could

not
be found..." - refers to the Mail option in control panel to change
settings.... this might be a clue?
(I use Outlook Express for email/newsgroups and after recently reinstalling
Outlook 2000 I notice that my address book in OE has disappeared - possibly
been deleted. A search for .wab files on my HDD shows ONE file (size 100KB
which seems smaller than I remembered it...) - so I tried importing

it

back
into the OE address book. The action was confirmed as complete but

still

the
address book is empty).

 

[Deep Thought]

OK... but the other issue is the lack of my Outlook Today (no Outlook Today
folder either)... my Archive folder has also got deleted somewhere down the
line - hopefully the archive.pst file is still on the HDD.

It's a feature found only in the internet mode - you can edit the
registry to use it in other versions. Note that it will cause Outlook to
remain loaded in a hidden state and can prevent Windows from closing
properly.

http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/news.htm
[Posted using NNTP for Outlook]


-----Original Message-----
From: Deep Thought [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Saturday, June 12, 2004 11:57 AM
Posted To: microsoft.public.outlook
Conversation: Outlook Today has disappeared!
Subject: Re: Outlook Today has disappeared!

My OE address book does not seem to offer me the option of re-enabling
sharing...

Some more info: I need Outlook for the Calendar/Contacts/tasks
features... I
recently re-installed it and had to set the mail service as
Corporate/Workgroup as a device I use to synchronise with Outlook would
not
recognise Outlook until I had changed to this mail setting from my
previous
Internet Mail setting (Ericsson R380 cellphone/pda).

I noticed that Outlook Express had an empty address book and as stated I
tried to import what I thought was the right file (xxx.wab) - no errors
during the import process but address book still empty. Incidentally the
Contacts list in Outlook appears to be unscathed and intact but if I
click
on the Address Book option on tool bar I also get another empty address
book
(admit I had never tried opening the address book in Outlook before so
cannot say for sure if it was ever populated). At the time I noticed my
OE
address book was empty the Outlook Today function was fine.... so it is
clearly something I have tinkered with - as I recall I made the decision
to
try and allow Outlook to be able to send/receive email in view of lack
of
address book in OE... I made no major changes I just went to the
Tools/Services option and thought that by adding a service for my email
(duplicating log-in, dial-up settings I use in OE) my email from Outlook
would work (it did not - just kept sending email I created and "sent"
straight back into my Outlook Inbox with an undeliverable message). I
thought I had done nothing major here so I deleted this new service I
had
created concluding I would never get Outlook to work for mail so back to
square one... however I now get the problems I have described...
essentially
the default opening view is PERSONAL FOLDERS and the Outlook Today
button
just takes me always to the same view.

Configure the page you want Outlook Today to use in the Properties of the

Personal Folders file > Home Page Tab.

You did not state what mail support mode of Outlook 2000 you are using and
whether you had configured OE to use your Outlook Contacts as its data
source.
Open the Address Book in OE, go to Tools > Options... and see if re-enabling
sharing restores your address book. You may not have been using the WAB at
all, but you are the only one who could know what you were doing before.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Do not know what the hell my Outlook 2000 is up to but I noticed

today

that
when it starts up my default view in the main panel is "Personal
Folders".... the short cuts down the left column (e.g. Calendar,
Contacts...) work but the Outlook Today shortcut takes me back to the
Personal folders display.... how do I get my Outlook Today view back?
If I click on the Outlook Today button on the toolbar I get a message
"Outlook could not start because a location to send/receive email

could

not
be found..." - refers to the Mail option in control panel to change
settings.... this might be a clue?
(I use Outlook Express for email/newsgroups and after recently reinstalling
Outlook 2000 I notice that my address book in OE has disappeared - possibly
been deleted. A search for .wab files on my HDD shows ONE file (size 100KB
which seems smaller than I remembered it...) - so I tried importing

it

back
into the OE address book. The action was confirmed as complete but

still

the
address book is empty).

 

[Deep Thought]

have sorted out the Outlook Today problem (detect and repair.. followed by
my laptop hanging during windows shut down/restart.... had to re-set the
BIOS aswell - terrifying few minutes for me...) however I notice another
problem which MAY have already existed - this is regards my address book in
Outlook Express. As you may recall I posted earlier (I think) regards
finding my OE address book had been deleted... presumably during the course
of the reinstallation of Outlook and setting it up Outlook to also deal with
email... I cannot find an easy way to get Outlook Contacts into OE address
book, in fact I cannot see an easy way of getting selected contacts from
Outlook into Outlook's OWN address book (which is also empty). So.. I have
been manually creating some contacts in the OE address book only to find I
cannot seem to create any GROUPS! It allows me to go through the procedure
no problem but NO groups are shown in the address book listing... weird and
irritating.

Most likely you were using Internet Mail Only mode of Outlook before, which
permits sharing of your Outlook Contacts with OE.
Corp/Workgroup does not. So that is why the option is not there.
If you were sharing with OE before, most likely you were never using a WAB.
IF you want to use a WAB now, you'll have to export your Contacts from
Outlook into a format that OE can import, like CSV.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My OE address book does not seem to offer me the option of re-enabling
sharing...

Some more info: I need Outlook for the Calendar/Contacts/tasks

features...

I
recently re-installed it and had to set the mail service as
Corporate/Workgroup as a device I use to synchronise with Outlook would not
recognise Outlook until I had changed to this mail setting from my previous
Internet Mail setting (Ericsson R380 cellphone/pda).

I noticed that Outlook Express had an empty address book and as stated I
tried to import what I thought was the right file (xxx.wab) - no errors
during the import process but address book still empty. Incidentally the
Contacts list in Outlook appears to be unscathed and intact but if I click
on the Address Book option on tool bar I also get another empty address book
(admit I had never tried opening the address book in Outlook before so
cannot say for sure if it was ever populated). At the time I noticed my OE
address book was empty the Outlook Today function was fine.... so it is
clearly something I have tinkered with - as I recall I made the decision to
try and allow Outlook to be able to send/receive email in view of lack of
address book in OE... I made no major changes I just went to the
Tools/Services option and thought that by adding a service for my email
(duplicating log-in, dial-up settings I use in OE) my email from Outlook
would work (it did not - just kept sending email I created and "sent"
straight back into my Outlook Inbox with an undeliverable message). I
thought I had done nothing major here so I deleted this new service I had
created concluding I would never get Outlook to work for mail so back to
square one... however I now get the problems I have described... essentially
the default opening view is PERSONAL FOLDERS and the Outlook Today button
just takes me always to the same view.


the

WAB

at

all, but you are the only one who could know what you were doing before.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Do not know what the hell my Outlook 2000 is up to but I noticed today
that
when it starts up my default view in the main panel is "Personal
Folders".... the short cuts down the left column (e.g. Calendar,
Contacts...) work but the Outlook Today shortcut takes me back to the
Personal folders display.... how do I get my Outlook Today view back?
If I click on the Outlook Today button on the toolbar I get a message
"Outlook could not start because a location to send/receive email could
not
be found..." - refers to the Mail option in control panel to change
settings.... this might be a clue?
(I use Outlook Express for email/newsgroups and after recently
reinstalling
Outlook 2000 I notice that my address book in OE has disappeared -
possibly
been deleted. A search for .wab files on my HDD shows ONE file (size 100KB
which seems smaller than I remembered it...) - so I tried importing it
back
into the OE address book. The action was confirmed as complete but still
the
address book is empty).

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you read the post to which you replied?
I told you how to get your Contacts from Outlook to OE.
Your Contacts will appear in the Outlook Address Book automatically. You
just haven't configured it yet:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287563&Product=out2003

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

have sorted out the Outlook Today problem (detect and repair.. followed by
my laptop hanging during windows shut down/restart.... had to re-set the
BIOS aswell - terrifying few minutes for me...) however I notice another
problem which MAY have already existed - this is regards my address book in
Outlook Express. As you may recall I posted earlier (I think) regards
finding my OE address book had been deleted... presumably during the course
of the reinstallation of Outlook and setting it up Outlook to also deal with
email... I cannot find an easy way to get Outlook Contacts into OE address
book, in fact I cannot see an easy way of getting selected contacts from
Outlook into Outlook's OWN address book (which is also empty). So.. I have
been manually creating some contacts in the OE address book only to find I
cannot seem to create any GROUPS! It allows me to go through the procedure
no problem but NO groups are shown in the address book listing... weird and
irritating.

Most likely you were using Internet Mail Only mode of Outlook before, which
permits sharing of your Outlook Contacts with OE.
Corp/Workgroup does not. So that is why the option is not there.
If you were sharing with OE before, most likely you were never using a WAB.
IF you want to use a WAB now, you'll have to export your Contacts from
Outlook into a format that OE can import, like CSV.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My OE address book does not seem to offer me the option of re-enabling
sharing...

Some more info: I need Outlook for the Calendar/Contacts/tasks

features...

I
recently re-installed it and had to set the mail service as
Corporate/Workgroup as a device I use to synchronise with Outlook

would
not

recognise Outlook until I had changed to this mail setting from my previous
Internet Mail setting (Ericsson R380 cellphone/pda).

I noticed that Outlook Express had an empty address book and as stated I
tried to import what I thought was the right file (xxx.wab) - no errors
during the import process but address book still empty. Incidentally the
Contacts list in Outlook appears to be unscathed and intact but if I click
on the Address Book option on tool bar I also get another empty

address
book

(admit I had never tried opening the address book in Outlook before so
cannot say for sure if it was ever populated). At the time I noticed

my

OE

address book was empty the Outlook Today function was fine.... so it is
clearly something I have tinkered with - as I recall I made the

decision
to

try and allow Outlook to be able to send/receive email in view of lack of
address book in OE... I made no major changes I just went to the
Tools/Services option and thought that by adding a service for my email
(duplicating log-in, dial-up settings I use in OE) my email from Outlook
would work (it did not - just kept sending email I created and "sent"
straight back into my Outlook Inbox with an undeliverable message). I
thought I had done nothing major here so I deleted this new service I had
created concluding I would never get Outlook to work for mail so back to
square one... however I now get the problems I have described... essentially
the default opening view is PERSONAL FOLDERS and the Outlook Today button
just takes me always to the same view.


Configure the page you want Outlook Today to use in the Properties

of
the

Personal Folders file > Home Page Tab.

You did not state what mail support mode of Outlook 2000 you are

using
and

whether you had configured OE to use your Outlook Contacts as its data
source.
Open the Address Book in OE, go to Tools > Options... and see if
re-enabling
sharing restores your address book. You may not have been using the

WAB

at
all, but you are the only one who could know what you were doing before.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Do not know what the hell my Outlook 2000 is up to but I noticed today
that
when it starts up my default view in the main panel is "Personal
Folders".... the short cuts down the left column (e.g. Calendar,
Contacts...) work but the Outlook Today shortcut takes me back to the
Personal folders display.... how do I get my Outlook Today view back?
If I click on the Outlook Today button on the toolbar I get a message
"Outlook could not start because a location to send/receive email could
not
be found..." - refers to the Mail option in control panel to change
settings.... this might be a clue?
(I use Outlook Express for email/newsgroups and after recently
reinstalling
Outlook 2000 I notice that my address book in OE has disappeared -
possibly
been deleted. A search for .wab files on my HDD shows ONE file (size
100KB
which seems smaller than I remembered it...) - so I tried

importing

it