Problems creating tasks.

[katieja]

I suddenly cannot create any task in Outlook 2002. When
saving, get the message "Could not complete the
operation. One or more parameters are not valid".

I googled this error and came up with the following web page

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;823475&spid=2520&sid=944

so I obediently followed the instructions, but I still can't create
tasks. I also found some people saying that "save task order" would
solve the problem (I think it worked for me before), so did that first
(as it was a lot easier than rebuilding my entire mailbox) but also no
luck.

I moved all my tasks to another tasks folder, so it is not one corrupt
task that is messing it up. I had absolutely no tasks in there, and it
wouldn't create any. I then created one on the Exchange web interface
and it synchronises properly and will allow itself to be edited, but
still no new tasks can be created.

Any suggestions?

Katie

 

[katieja]

I have now solved my own problem. I did all the steps outlined above:

Move all existing tasks to a new folder (an offline folder in fact).
"save task order", although I'm not convinced this step was necessary.
Create a new task in the Exchange web interface.
Synchronise this folder with my PC
New task appears
"Save task order" again at this point even though there is only one
task
Now it will create new tasks.

What's more, I moved the old tasks over one by one from the new offline
Tasks folder and tried creating a new task after every one was moved,
and none of them seemed to be corrupted in the sense that I couldn't
create a new task after moving them over.

Katie