If you can open the .pst file, I would just create a new one and make it the
default for mail delivery. This will at least get you your mail. YOu can
then drag and drop from the old .pst file to the new one. This method will
also help discover if you have a corrupted item that is messing with
Outlook.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, glenf asked:
| Milly - I have deleted messages and compacted my outlook.pst file
| down to (947 MB (993,174,528 bytes)), but when I try to receive it
| still goes through the motions but no messages appear in my Inbox and
| I still get error 0x80040403. Do you think that I might be able to
| resolve my problem by reinstalling Outlook 98 over the existing copy?
| What else might you suggest? I haven't been able to 'receive' since
| 10 AM on Thursday - this is getting old!
|
| Thanks again for all of your help.
| Glen (e-mail address removed)
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || The Outlook .pst file contains everything in your Outlook, including
|| subfolders, calendar items, tasks, notes, etc. You can try
|| archiving your older items (use a 6 month limit to ensure you have
|| the current stuff available. Also, remove attachments, empty the
|| deleted items folder (the icon is a trash can for good reason), and
|| then compact your .pst file.
||
|| Set up an archiving schedule and see what settings suit you best.
|| You can have more than one .pst file open in Outlook so archiving
|| would appear to be your best bet.
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, glenf asked:
||
||| It appears that I have hit the inFamous 2Gig limit on my .pst files.
||| I changed the name of outlook.pst to outlook1.pst and created
||| another outlook.pst file and it downloads just as it should. While
||| I have
||| been deleting messages, I have not compacted which I will do later
||| today when I won't need the computer for a couple of hours. I have
||| set up file folders in outlook to save important messages. Are
||| these
||| a part of the outlook.pst file? When I look at windows explorer,
||| they all show up individually. I have about 450Kb in folders and
||| about 1.6 Gb in outlook.pst. "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| |||| Then I would try reinstalling Outlook 98 over itself. Do not
|||| uninstall, just rerun the setup.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, glenf
|||| asked:
||||
||||| Milly - I've tried disabling both Zone Alarm and Norton and the
||||| problem still exists. I have run "Inbox Repair" on the main
||||| Outlook file with no success. I'm going to run it on each of the
||||| individual folders that I have in Outlook to see if that helps.
|||||
||||| Any other ideas?
||||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||||| |||||| If you adjust the zone alarm settings, does it help?
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||
|||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||||||
|||||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, glenf
|||||| asked:
||||||
||||||| I have been using outlook 98 since, well 1998! I have never run
||||||| across this problem. I can compose and send messages, but I now
||||||| have about 40 messages on the server that I cannot download to
||||||| my inbox. When I click "Send and Receive" it sends fine and
||||||| then the "Microsoft Outlook" window shows it receiving (the
||||||| blue line progresses, Norton scans, Zonealarm scans) but
||||||| nothing shows up in my Inbox. The error message is 0x80040403.
||||||| Now what - PLEASE??? I'm using W2000 Professional, and have 512
||||||| MB ram. 20 Gig HD.
|||||||
||||||| (e-mail address removed)
