Did I lose the owner permission to my folders?

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Chen Yaohan

Hi everyone,

I'm having a few problems with Outlook.

I can no longer set recurrences of my tasks. When I open a task or create a
new task, the Recurrences button is disabled.

When I compose an email and click the To button to show the contacts, a
message box pops up and says the address book cannot be opened. After that I
see I have a few address books, and the reason that message box shows is
because Outlook does not select my Contacts list, but the Personal Address
book. If I select my Contacts folder (interestingly there are three Contacts
folders listed, and the third one is the one I uses), I can select the
recipient.

When I open any personal folder's properties, the Administration settings
are disabled, except the Initial View setting.

Does anyone know how to fix these problems?
 
What version of Outlook are you using? Note: this group does not support
Outlook Express.


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Chen Yaohan <[email protected]> asked:
| Hi everyone,
|
| I'm having a few problems with Outlook.
|
| I can no longer set recurrences of my tasks. When I open a task or
| create a new task, the Recurrences button is disabled.
|
| When I compose an email and click the To button to show the contacts,
| a message box pops up and says the address book cannot be opened.
| After that I see I have a few address books, and the reason that
| message box shows is because Outlook does not select my Contacts
| list, but the Personal Address book. If I select my Contacts folder
| (interestingly there are three Contacts folders listed, and the third
| one is the one I uses), I can select the recipient.
|
| When I open any personal folder's properties, the Administration
| settings are disabled, except the Initial View setting.
|
| Does anyone know how to fix these problems?
|
| --
| Yaohan Chen
 
Which version of Outlook and Windows and are you on a network?

For the address book, open tools, address book and choose it's tools,
options. Delete all the contacts folders listed and re-add contacts.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

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Hi,

I use Outlook 2002, and I updated on the Office support website.

I forgot to mention that I used the "Oracle Corporate Calender Outlook
Connector" just a few days ago. It's a product by Oracle that makes it
possible to use Outlook to access a Corporate Calender server. I
couldn't get it to connect so I uninstalled it. I think it did some
changes to my personal folders.

I backed up my folders before installing the program, and I did import
them back into Outlook after I uninstalled it.

I also forgot to mention, I can set the recurrences for my
appointments, even though not tasks. But the Administration settings
for the Calender folder is disabled too.
 
Thank you. I fixed the address book issue with your directions.

I'm not on a working network (I have never been able to connect to my school
network), but I think the Corporate Calender Outlook Connector (see my other
reply) is network-related and might have caused something...

--
Yaohan Chen


Diane Poremsky said:
Which version of Outlook and Windows and are you on a network?

For the address book, open tools, address book and choose it's tools,
options. Delete all the contacts folders listed and re-add contacts.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30


Chen Yaohan said:
Hi everyone,

I'm having a few problems with Outlook.

I can no longer set recurrences of my tasks. When I open a task or
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create
a
new task, the Recurrences button is disabled.

When I compose an email and click the To button to show the contacts, a
message box pops up and says the address book cannot be opened. After
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that
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I'm not familiar with that connector, so I don't know if it's the cause.
Have you tried a detect and repair?

Also - try a new profile - control panel, mail. Don't copy or delete the
current one, just make a new one to test it that uses a new pst. See if the
recurring tasks work in it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30


Chen Yaohan said:
Thank you. I fixed the address book issue with your directions.

I'm not on a working network (I have never been able to connect to my school
network), but I think the Corporate Calender Outlook Connector (see my other
reply) is network-related and might have caused something...

--
Yaohan Chen


Diane Poremsky said:
Which version of Outlook and Windows and are you on a network?

For the address book, open tools, address book and choose it's tools,
options. Delete all the contacts folders listed and re-add contacts.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
Click to expand...
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30
Click to expand...
 
I just tried Detect and Repair and a new profile using a different pst. The
task recurrence and administration setting issues were still there. Also, I
had a few other pst files in my old profile (Archived folders, my Hotmail
and IMAP mail accounts), and I can't access the administration settings for
them either....

--
Yaohan Chen

Diane Poremsky said:
I'm not familiar with that connector, so I don't know if it's the cause.
Have you tried a detect and repair?

Also - try a new profile - control panel, mail. Don't copy or delete the
current one, just make a new one to test it that uses a new pst. See if
the recurring tasks work in it.


Chen Yaohan said:
Thank you. I fixed the address book issue with your directions.

I'm not on a working network (I have never been able to connect to my
school network), but I think the Corporate Calender Outlook Connector
(see my other reply) is network-related and might have caused
something...

--
Yaohan Chen


Diane Poremsky said:
Which version of Outlook and Windows and are you on a network?

For the address book, open tools, address book and choose it's tools,
options. Delete all the contacts folders listed and re-add contacts.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30
Click to expand...
 
I just noticed that I cannot create macros in Outlook either. In the Macro >
menu, there are only Macros..., Security... and Visual Basic Editor three
menu items. In Word, I see Record New Macro... besides those.

When I open Macros, the Create button is disabled. (The other buttons except
Exit are disabled since I have no macros in the list.) In the Security
dialog, I cannot check "Trust access to Visual Basic project."

In Outlook's About dialog, I find out there are no disabled items.

I don't know if this is related to my other problems.
 
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