outlook 2007 is creating directories all over my harddrive

[Jimmy Lilly]

I have been running Office Outlook 2007 (Basic Edition) on my Vista machine
since Apr, 2007. Every since I got it, I have had two problems:

1) When I receive an email with an attachment, I'll save that attachment to
some directory. Whatever directory I choose, Outlook will always create the
following two folders in that directory: "outlook calendar" and "outlook
contact"
It is really cluttering up my harddrive. Oh yea, those two directories also
gets created by Outlook in my personal "Documents" directory just by opening
Outlook 2007.
Does anyone know how to stop this?

2) The second problem is "A data file did not close properly". I've found a
lot of reference to this on the internet, which pretty much says to export to
a flat file and then import to a new pst file. I then found out that the
Export won't work on sub-folders?
Does anyone know how to rebuild the pst file?

Thanks,
Jimmy

 

[Roady [MVP]]

1)
Outlook is not doing this. Sounds like you've got a Dell. Remove the
application OutlookAddin and try again. I'm not sure what Dell is thinking
to still include this heavily flawed application (by Cyberlink) in their
default installations.

2)

I've found a
lot of reference to this on the internet, which pretty much says to export
to
a flat file and then import to a new pst file.

Not sure where you have been searching but that is definitely not the way to
go. First start with scanning your pst-file for errors with scanpst.exe.
Always make sure you close Outlook (or any other application for that
matter) before shutting down your PC. If the outlook.exe process doesn't
quite when you close down Outlook you most likely have an addin installed
that keeps Outlook open. This might as well be OutlookAddin.