Invisible Appointments

[PlumbKeith]

Dear All

I had a problem with a user who could not see any appointments in the
daily/weekly/monthly view of his Outlook 2000 calendar. However, they
were visible in the Category View and all reminders worked fine.
Google Groups was the only place that was discussing the problem, but
few of the threads ended in a solution and none that did worked for us.


However, in looking for Outlook switches I came across /cleanpst. This
starts Outlook with an empty pst file which it calls Outlook0.pst. I
did this and the calendar views started working properly again. It was
then just a case of opening the original pst file and copying across
all the entries, appointments, tasks, email etc.

The problem was clearly a corrupted outlook.pst file.

Hope this helps

Keith

 

[John7]

Hi Keith,


The MS-tool "scanpst.exe", which comes free with Outlook, fixed Outlook.pst
corruptions well for me.
Find it using File Search (it's somewhere in C:\Program Files\Common
Files\System\MSMAPI\10......)


HTH next time.
John7

 

[Brian Tillman]

However, in looking for Outlook switches I came across /cleanpst.
This starts Outlook with an empty pst file which it calls
Outlook0.pst. I did this and the calendar views started working
properly again. It was then just a case of opening the original pst
file and copying across all the entries, appointments, tasks, email
etc.

That's like swatting a fly with a plasma cannon. All he had to do was reset
the views in his existing PST by starting Outlook once with the /cleanviews
command line switch.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

or it was a corrupt view... /cleanviews or just resetting the current view
woulda fixed it too.

What solutions did you find using google that didn't work?