OL2002 error using /folder command line option after Windows Updat

[Guest]

Since the last Windows Update, this command line for starting up a contacts
window without a folder pane does not work any more:

"C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select
outlook:Kontakte /folder

It gives me this error message:

"The command line option is invalid. Please check the command used."

(translated back to English by me; in German: "Das Befehlszeilen-Argument
ist ungültig. Überprüfen Sie den verwendeten Befehl.")

The /select outlook:Kontakte option works if is the only option I give, as
well as the /folders option does when I use only this one. Combining both
results in the error message.

I now noticed that even giving the /folder option twice gives an error!

Can anybody comment on this?
Should I enter a bug report? (Where would I have to go to do so?)

This is Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3, German version.

Thank you in advance!

Greetings!
Matthias Muth

 

[Roady [MVP]]

There is no need to specify the /folder switch as /select already opens the
folder in a new window.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

 

[Guest]

Roady, thank you for trying to answer my question, but I am sorry you missed
the point.
The /folder switch is not there for getting a new window, but to suppress
the folder pane in the left side of the new window. I want to have just a
plain contacts window, with no folder hierarchy shown at the left side.

This used to work fine, until I updated using Windows Update some days ago.
Can anyone else reproduce this, or have the same problem?
And does anyone know what happened or what can be done?
Thank you again.
Matthias

There is no need to specify the /folder switch as /select already opens the
folder in a new window.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]
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Since the last Windows Update, this command line for starting up a
contacts
window without a folder pane does not work any more:

"C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select
outlook:Kontakte /folder

It gives me this error message:

"The command line option is invalid. Please check the command used."

(translated back to English by me; in German: "Das Befehlszeilen-Argument
ist ungültig. Überprüfen Sie den verwendeten Befehl.")

The /select outlook:Kontakte option works if is the only option I give, as
well as the /folders option does when I use only this one. Combining both
results in the error message.

I now noticed that even giving the /folder option twice gives an error!

Can anybody comment on this?
Should I enter a bug report? (Where would I have to go to do so?)

This is Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3, German version.
[...]

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Ah, Outlook 2002, now I get it :-D. With Outlook 2003 the /folder switch
doesn't really do anything as it will always open a windows with the
Navigation Pane on.

Do you have the same results when you disable all your addins?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

-----
Roady, thank you for trying to answer my question, but I am sorry you missed
the point.
The /folder switch is not there for getting a new window, but to suppress
the folder pane in the left side of the new window. I want to have just a
plain contacts window, with no folder hierarchy shown at the left side.

This used to work fine, until I updated using Windows Update some days ago.
Can anyone else reproduce this, or have the same problem?
And does anyone know what happened or what can be done?
Thank you again.
Matthias

There is no need to specify the /folder switch as /select already opens
the
folder in a new window.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]
-----

Since the last Windows Update, this command line for starting up a
contacts
window without a folder pane does not work any more:

"C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select
outlook:Kontakte /folder

It gives me this error message:

"The command line option is invalid. Please check the command used."

(translated back to English by me; in German: "Das
Befehlszeilen-Argument
ist ungültig. Überprüfen Sie den verwendeten Befehl.")

The /select outlook:Kontakte option works if is the only option I give,
as
well as the /folders option does when I use only this one. Combining
both
results in the error message.

I now noticed that even giving the /folder option twice gives an error!

Can anybody comment on this?
Should I enter a bug report? (Where would I have to go to do so?)

This is Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3, German version.
[...]

 

[Guest]

Yes, I get the same error message when I disable all add-ins and restart
Outlook.

I am still wondering what the change was that started the symptoms.
Maybe one of the updates I doenloaded using Windows Update changed the
/folder behavior to the Outlook 2003 style? Maybe they changed the handling
of the /folder option, doing a bad job in changing the command line option
consistency checks in the command line parser?

It is a pity that I cannot deinstall the updates done, they are all in a
"This update was removed" state (which I guess means "this update cannot be
removed, so we don't allow it"). The System Administration / Software panel
states a different Version number ("10.0.6626.0") than the Info menu
("Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3").

I played around a bit with the command line options, and I observed this:

outlook.exe /select outlook:Kontakte

does it, but with a folder pane.

outlook.exe /folder

opens my in-box, and no folder pane(!).

outlook.exe /select outlookosteingang /blablabla

opens my in-box, and does not complain about the useless option.

outlook.exe /select outlookosteingang /folder bang!

outlook.exe /folder /select outlookosteingang bang!

outlook.exe /folder /blablabla

bang!

So the error message is not triggered by just giving more than one option,
as I had supposed before.
The error message will appear when the /folder option is given together with
any other option. The order of options does not matter then.

So much for my analysis, and a bit of diagnosis, too, but what could be a
therapy?

Greetings!
Matthias Muth

Ah, Outlook 2002, now I get it :-D. With Outlook 2003 the /folder switch
doesn't really do anything as it will always open a windows with the
Navigation Pane on.

Do you have the same results when you disable all your addins?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]

-----
Roady, thank you for trying to answer my question, but I am sorry you missed
the point.
The /folder switch is not there for getting a new window, but to suppress
the folder pane in the left side of the new window. I want to have just a
plain contacts window, with no folder hierarchy shown at the left side.

This used to work fine, until I updated using Windows Update some days ago.
Can anyone else reproduce this, or have the same problem?
And does anyone know what happened or what can be done?
Thank you again.
Matthias

There is no need to specify the /folder switch as /select already opens
the
folder in a new window.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]
-----

Since the last Windows Update, this command line for starting up a
contacts
window without a folder pane does not work any more:

"C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select
outlook:Kontakte /folder

It gives me this error message:

"The command line option is invalid. Please check the command used."

(translated back to English by me; in German: "Das
Befehlszeilen-Argument
ist ungültig. Überprüfen Sie den verwendeten Befehl.")

The /select outlook:Kontakte option works if is the only option I give,
as
well as the /folders option does when I use only this one. Combining
both
results in the error message.

I now noticed that even giving the /folder option twice gives an error!

Can anybody comment on this?
Should I enter a bug report? (Where would I have to go to do so?)

This is Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3, German version.
[...]

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Hi Matthias,

Sounds like a good diagnosis indeed. Things you could try;

outlook.exe /folder outlook:Kontakte
(so without the /select switch as it is not required)

Do you expect it to be a Windows Update that broke it or an Office Update?
You indeed cannot uninstall Office Updates. You must remove Office and then
reinstall the updates. You can install SP3 and see if that broke it. If not
install the Outlook updates one by one to find which one breaks it. At the
moment I cannot test this myself (sorry).

PM me if I loose track of this thread.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

-----

Yes, I get the same error message when I disable all add-ins and restart
Outlook.

I am still wondering what the change was that started the symptoms.
Maybe one of the updates I doenloaded using Windows Update changed the
/folder behavior to the Outlook 2003 style? Maybe they changed the
handling
of the /folder option, doing a bad job in changing the command line option
consistency checks in the command line parser?

It is a pity that I cannot deinstall the updates done, they are all in a
"This update was removed" state (which I guess means "this update cannot
be
removed, so we don't allow it"). The System Administration / Software
panel
states a different Version number ("10.0.6626.0") than the Info menu
("Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3").

I played around a bit with the command line options, and I observed this:

outlook.exe /select outlook:Kontakte

does it, but with a folder pane.

outlook.exe /folder

opens my in-box, and no folder pane(!).

outlook.exe /select outlookosteingang /blablabla

opens my in-box, and does not complain about the useless option.

outlook.exe /select outlookosteingang /folder bang!

outlook.exe /folder /select outlookosteingang bang!

outlook.exe /folder /blablabla

bang!

So the error message is not triggered by just giving more than one option,
as I had supposed before.
The error message will appear when the /folder option is given together
with
any other option. The order of options does not matter then.

So much for my analysis, and a bit of diagnosis, too, but what could be a
therapy?

Greetings!
Matthias Muth

Ah, Outlook 2002, now I get it :-D. With Outlook 2003 the /folder switch
doesn't really do anything as it will always open a windows with the
Navigation Pane on.

Do you have the same results when you disable all your addins?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]

-----
Roady, thank you for trying to answer my question, but I am sorry you
missed
the point.
The /folder switch is not there for getting a new window, but to suppress
the folder pane in the left side of the new window. I want to have just a
plain contacts window, with no folder hierarchy shown at the left side.

This used to work fine, until I updated using Windows Update some days
ago.
Can anyone else reproduce this, or have the same problem?
And does anyone know what happened or what can be done?
Thank you again.
Matthias

There is no need to specify the /folder switch as /select already opens
the
folder in a new window.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]
-----
message
Since the last Windows Update, this command line for starting up a
contacts
window without a folder pane does not work any more:

"C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select
outlook:Kontakte /folder

It gives me this error message:

"The command line option is invalid. Please check the command used."

(translated back to English by me; in German: "Das
Befehlszeilen-Argument
ist ungültig. Überprüfen Sie den verwendeten Befehl.")

The /select outlook:Kontakte option works if is the only option I
give,
as
well as the /folders option does when I use only this one. Combining
both
results in the error message.

I now noticed that even giving the /folder option twice gives an
error!

Can anybody comment on this?
Should I enter a bug report? (Where would I have to go to do so?)

This is Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3, German version.
[...]

 

[Guest]

That did it!
(outlook.exe /folder outlook:Kontakte, without /select)

Many thanks for staying with me for so long...

So it was not the /folder option that offended, but the /select keyword?
Anyway. It works now!
If I remenber correctly it was an Office Update that was installed, and I
think it was a step-up to SP3.

Thank you again!

Greetings!
Matthias

Hi Matthias,

Sounds like a good diagnosis indeed. Things you could try;

outlook.exe /folder outlook:Kontakte
(so without the /select switch as it is not required)

Do you expect it to be a Windows Update that broke it or an Office Update?
You indeed cannot uninstall Office Updates. You must remove Office and then
reinstall the updates. You can install SP3 and see if that broke it. If not
install the Outlook updates one by one to find which one breaks it. At the
moment I cannot test this myself (sorry).

PM me if I loose track of this thread.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]
-----

Yes, I get the same error message when I disable all add-ins and restart
Outlook.

I am still wondering what the change was that started the symptoms.
Maybe one of the updates I doenloaded using Windows Update changed the
/folder behavior to the Outlook 2003 style? Maybe they changed the
handling
of the /folder option, doing a bad job in changing the command line option
consistency checks in the command line parser?

It is a pity that I cannot deinstall the updates done, they are all in a
"This update was removed" state (which I guess means "this update cannot
be
removed, so we don't allow it"). The System Administration / Software
panel
states a different Version number ("10.0.6626.0") than the Info menu
("Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3").

I played around a bit with the command line options, and I observed this:

outlook.exe /select outlook:Kontakte

does it, but with a folder pane.

outlook.exe /folder

opens my in-box, and no folder pane(!).

outlook.exe /select outlookosteingang /blablabla

opens my in-box, and does not complain about the useless option.

outlook.exe /select outlookosteingang /folder bang!

outlook.exe /folder /select outlookosteingang bang!

outlook.exe /folder /blablabla

bang!

So the error message is not triggered by just giving more than one option,
as I had supposed before.
The error message will appear when the /folder option is given together
with
any other option. The order of options does not matter then.

So much for my analysis, and a bit of diagnosis, too, but what could be a
therapy?

Greetings!
Matthias Muth

Ah, Outlook 2002, now I get it :-D. With Outlook 2003 the /folder switch
doesn't really do anything as it will always open a windows with the
Navigation Pane on.

Do you have the same results when you disable all your addins?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]

-----
Roady, thank you for trying to answer my question, but I am sorry you
missed
the point.
The /folder switch is not there for getting a new window, but to suppress
the folder pane in the left side of the new window. I want to have just a
plain contacts window, with no folder hierarchy shown at the left side.

This used to work fine, until I updated using Windows Update some days
ago.
Can anyone else reproduce this, or have the same problem?
And does anyone know what happened or what can be done?
Thank you again.
Matthias

:
There is no need to specify the /folder switch as /select already opens
the
folder in a new window.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com
[...]
-----
message
Since the last Windows Update, this command line for starting up a
contacts
window without a folder pane does not work any more:

"C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select
outlook:Kontakte /folder

It gives me this error message:

"The command line option is invalid. Please check the command used."

(translated back to English by me; in German: "Das
Befehlszeilen-Argument
ist ungültig. Überprüfen Sie den verwendeten Befehl.")

The /select outlook:Kontakte option works if is the only option I
give,
as
well as the /folders option does when I use only this one. Combining
both
results in the error message.

I now noticed that even giving the /folder option twice gives an
error!

Can anybody comment on this?
Should I enter a bug report? (Where would I have to go to do so?)

This is Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6735) SP3, German version.
[...]