Did I lose the owner permission to my folders?

[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?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What version of Outlook are you using? Note: this group does not support
Outlook Express.


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After searching google.groups.com and finding not answer:
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

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

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.

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[Yaohan Chen]

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.

 

[Chen Yaohan]

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

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

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

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

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
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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

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]

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

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.

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

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]

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.