Outlook 2007 -- problem with reminders

[Guest]

Same issue as dozens of others have posted. But in my case, I've just
upgraded to Outlook 2007, and getting this message on startup: "There was a
problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders may not
appear."

I've done the cleanreminders etc stuff, tried scanpst, etc. Never had this
problem until upgrading to 2007.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Did you create a new mail profile after upgrading? Outlook 2007 seems particularly unforgiving of prior profiles.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, mikemartin asked:

| Same issue as dozens of others have posted. But in my case, I've just
| upgraded to Outlook 2007, and getting this message on startup: "There
| was a problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders
| may not appear."
|
| I've done the cleanreminders etc stuff, tried scanpst, etc. Never had
| this problem until upgrading to 2007.

 

[Guest]

I hadn't, and have now done. That's solved the Calendar issue (thanks!), but
the Profile thing has now gotten quite complicated!...

I deleted the old profile, called "Outlook", and created a new one, which I
called Michael, with my two e-mail accounts: one a company one, the other an
MSN one which I've had for about 10 years.

Outlook 2007 has, in turn, created
a) a new pst file called Outlook1, which seems to be empty
b) a new pst file with a long (e-mail address removed)-000000004.pst name
which has switched to an "http" type rather than pop as it was before.
and still has my old Outlook.pst file with all the real data in it.
(No sign of anything called "Michael" which is what I thought I'd named it.)

And now, to load the real Outlook.pst (with all mail, calendar, contacts etc
folders), I have to tell it to open this Personal Folder. Plus, the
navigation pane on the left has an empty "Inbox", an "Inbox in Current
Outlook" which has all the relevant mail items, and the same with Outbox,
Sent Items, etc etc. Plus the MSN account has its own "Inbox in
michaelxxxx.msn.com" etc etc. In other words, triple inboxes, outboxes, and
everything else!

And whenever I close and then re-open Outlook, I have to point it to the
"Inbox in Current Outlook" since the default Inbox is empty.

Any idea what's with this and how I can just get back to having one profile
or one whatever?

(I know all that sounds a bit complicated, but it is! .... P.S. And is
everyone else who upgrades to Office 2007 going through this whole
production??)

====================================

 

[Guest]

P.S. to my previous a few minutes ago: I've just discovered that I can set
data files wo have "Current Outlook" as the default, but I still have several
inboxes, outboxes etc. Any way to get everything from my two e-mail accounts
all in one place?

=========================

I hadn't, and have now done. That's solved the Calendar issue (thanks!), but
the Profile thing has now gotten quite complicated!...

I deleted the old profile, called "Outlook", and created a new one, which I
called Michael, with my two e-mail accounts: one a company one, the other an
MSN one which I've had for about 10 years.

Outlook 2007 has, in turn, created
a) a new pst file called Outlook1, which seems to be empty
b) a new pst file with a long (e-mail address removed)-000000004.pst name
which has switched to an "http" type rather than pop as it was before.
and still has my old Outlook.pst file with all the real data in it.
(No sign of anything called "Michael" which is what I thought I'd named it.)

And now, to load the real Outlook.pst (with all mail, calendar, contacts etc
folders), I have to tell it to open this Personal Folder. Plus, the
navigation pane on the left has an empty "Inbox", an "Inbox in Current
Outlook" which has all the relevant mail items, and the same with Outbox,
Sent Items, etc etc. Plus the MSN account has its own "Inbox in
michaelxxxx.msn.com" etc etc. In other words, triple inboxes, outboxes, and
everything else!

And whenever I close and then re-open Outlook, I have to point it to the
"Inbox in Current Outlook" since the default Inbox is empty.

Any idea what's with this and how I can just get back to having one profile
or one whatever?

(I know all that sounds a bit complicated, but it is! .... P.S. And is
everyone else who upgrades to Office 2007 going through this whole
production??)

====================================

Did you create a new mail profile after upgrading? Outlook 2007 seems particularly unforgiving of prior profiles.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, mikemartin asked:

| Same issue as dozens of others have posted. But in my case, I've just
| upgraded to Outlook 2007, and getting this message on startup: "There
| was a problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders
| may not appear."
|
| I've done the cleanreminders etc stuff, tried scanpst, etc. Never had
| this problem until upgrading to 2007.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Not everyone is having this problem and we (Outlook MVPs) are keeping track of who is having them and under what circumstances so we can work with MSFT to find a fix or a common cause that can be avoided.

Rather than continue this, I am off to sleepyland as it is rather late here and lateness+correct information do not mix. If you want to try it again, try another new profile and configure it to use your current default outlook.pst file. If you have additional ones you want in the profile, open them in Outlook using File->Open->Outlook Data File.

If you have not had a reply by the morning, I will get back to you.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, mikemartin asked:

| P.S. to my previous a few minutes ago: I've just discovered that I
| can set data files wo have "Current Outlook" as the default, but I
| still have several inboxes, outboxes etc. Any way to get everything
| from my two e-mail accounts all in one place?
|
| =========================
|
| "mikemartin" wrote:
|
|| I hadn't, and have now done. That's solved the Calendar issue
|| (thanks!), but the Profile thing has now gotten quite complicated!...
||
|| I deleted the old profile, called "Outlook", and created a new one,
|| which I called Michael, with my two e-mail accounts: one a company
|| one, the other an MSN one which I've had for about 10 years.
||
|| Outlook 2007 has, in turn, created
|| a) a new pst file called Outlook1, which seems to be empty
|| b) a new pst file with a long
|| (e-mail address removed)-000000004.pst name which has switched to
|| an "http" type rather than pop as it was before.
|| and still has my old Outlook.pst file with all the real data in it.
|| (No sign of anything called "Michael" which is what I thought I'd
|| named it.)
||
|| And now, to load the real Outlook.pst (with all mail, calendar,
|| contacts etc folders), I have to tell it to open this Personal
|| Folder. Plus, the navigation pane on the left has an empty "Inbox",
|| an "Inbox in Current Outlook" which has all the relevant mail items,
|| and the same with Outbox, Sent Items, etc etc. Plus the MSN account
|| has its own "Inbox in michaelxxxx.msn.com" etc etc. In other words,
|| triple inboxes, outboxes, and everything else!
||
|| And whenever I close and then re-open Outlook, I have to point it to
|| the "Inbox in Current Outlook" since the default Inbox is empty.
||
|| Any idea what's with this and how I can just get back to having one
|| profile or one whatever?
||
|| (I know all that sounds a bit complicated, but it is! .... P.S.
|| And is everyone else who upgrades to Office 2007 going through this
|| whole production??)
||
|| ====================================
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Did you create a new mail profile after upgrading? Outlook 2007
||| seems particularly unforgiving of prior profiles.
|||
||| --Â
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, mikemartin asked:
|||
|||| Same issue as dozens of others have posted. But in my case, I've
|||| just upgraded to Outlook 2007, and getting this message on
|||| startup: "There was a problem reading one or more of your
|||| reminders. Some reminders may not appear."
||||
|||| I've done the cleanreminders etc stuff, tried scanpst, etc. Never
|||| had this problem until upgrading to 2007.

 

[Guest]

Next day . . .

I've been experimenting with profiles, data files, etc., and I'm still not
really udnerstanding what's going on. I could ask a lot of individual
questions, but it's more like there's a new system for what happens in pst's
which I'm not grasping in its fundamentals.

The main thing seems to be that while my company account (pop3) seems to be
working normally now, my personal msn.com account, which I've had since the
earliest days of MSN (prehistory!), has been switched from pop3 to http. I
don't know what that means, but it now has its own separate pst file (down in
the bowels of the "local settings" folder) with a long name full of letters
and numbers, and there seems to be a new kind of mirror pst file called
outlook1.pst, which exists only to translate (or whatever) this account into
something that works in Outlook. But it's very half baked. You can't apply
any Outlook rules, alerts etc. to it, and while it has its own Junk e-Mail
folder, you can't empty the junk folder from a right-click menu (as you can
with a regular junk mail folder). And if you delete this Outlook1.pst, then
it won't bpick up any msn e-mail at all, so you have to re-create it.

And so on and on.

So is there, like, any overall explanation anywhere of what this bizarre new
system is and (pardon my frustration) why this is considered an "upgrade"?
I've now spent hundreds of dollars on this "upgrade" and a 24 hours of very
valuable time trying to deal with all the nonsense it's doing to all my old
files!

P.S. In the old days (i.e. before yesterday morning) I used to copy one
simple outlook.pst back and forth to my notebook when traveling. I'm dreading
even to imagine what happens when I try this now. How many pst's do I copy?
Will they all work? (And I'm off on a trip -- a charity mission -- Tuesday
morning.) (Although I've installed the new Office 07 on my notebook, I
haven't even opened Outlook on it yet. Eek.)

Any insights much appreciated.

===========================

Not everyone is having this problem and we (Outlook MVPs) are keeping track of who is having them and under what circumstances so we can work with MSFT to find a fix or a common cause that can be avoided.

Rather than continue this, I am off to sleepyland as it is rather late here and lateness+correct information do not mix. If you want to try it again, try another new profile and configure it to use your current default outlook.pst file. If you have additional ones you want in the profile, open them in Outlook using File->Open->Outlook Data File.

If you have not had a reply by the morning, I will get back to you.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, mikemartin asked:

| P.S. to my previous a few minutes ago: I've just discovered that I
| can set data files wo have "Current Outlook" as the default, but I
| still have several inboxes, outboxes etc. Any way to get everything
| from my two e-mail accounts all in one place?
|
| =========================
|
| "mikemartin" wrote:
|
|| I hadn't, and have now done. That's solved the Calendar issue
|| (thanks!), but the Profile thing has now gotten quite complicated!...
||
|| I deleted the old profile, called "Outlook", and created a new one,
|| which I called Michael, with my two e-mail accounts: one a company
|| one, the other an MSN one which I've had for about 10 years.
||
|| Outlook 2007 has, in turn, created
|| a) a new pst file called Outlook1, which seems to be empty
|| b) a new pst file with a long
|| (e-mail address removed)-000000004.pst name which has switched to
|| an "http" type rather than pop as it was before.
|| and still has my old Outlook.pst file with all the real data in it.
|| (No sign of anything called "Michael" which is what I thought I'd
|| named it.)
||
|| And now, to load the real Outlook.pst (with all mail, calendar,
|| contacts etc folders), I have to tell it to open this Personal
|| Folder. Plus, the navigation pane on the left has an empty "Inbox",
|| an "Inbox in Current Outlook" which has all the relevant mail items,
|| and the same with Outbox, Sent Items, etc etc. Plus the MSN account
|| has its own "Inbox in michaelxxxx.msn.com" etc etc. In other words,
|| triple inboxes, outboxes, and everything else!
||
|| And whenever I close and then re-open Outlook, I have to point it to
|| the "Inbox in Current Outlook" since the default Inbox is empty.
||
|| Any idea what's with this and how I can just get back to having one
|| profile or one whatever?
||
|| (I know all that sounds a bit complicated, but it is! .... P.S.
|| And is everyone else who upgrades to Office 2007 going through this
|| whole production??)
||
|| ====================================
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Did you create a new mail profile after upgrading? Outlook 2007
||| seems particularly unforgiving of prior profiles.
|||
||| --ÂÂ
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, mikemartin asked:
|||
|||| Same issue as dozens of others have posted. But in my case, I've
|||| just upgraded to Outlook 2007, and getting this message on
|||| startup: "There was a problem reading one or more of your
|||| reminders. Some reminders may not appear."
||||
|||| I've done the cleanreminders etc stuff, tried scanpst, etc. Never
|||| had this problem until upgrading to 2007.