Error when searching - says too many public folders open

[Karen]

An error is occuring when searching saying too many public folders open and
there are no public folders opened. Tried restarting and a total shut down
neither have worked . I did on the online search and detect for errors and
it didnt find any with my set up. Did all new updates and this is still
happening. Please help

 

[Scamp45]

I found this fix:

When doing an advanced search in Outlook, you receive the following message:
'There are too many Find Public Folders dialogs open. You must close them in
order to use the Advance Find. Do you want to close them now?'
When clicking 'Yes' you receive:
'A folder by this name already exists.'
To resolve this issue:
1) Quit and log off of Outlook.
2) Click 'Start'.
3) Click 'Run', and in the 'Open' box type: outlook /cleanfinders

When you run Outlook with the /cleanfinders switch, it removes all saved
searches from the mailbox

 

[tablet user]

i have the same problem and tried this fix and it didn't work. any other
suggestions?