Reminders out of control

[Joe Tho]

Crossposted to outlook.calendaring.

Here is my problem:

SYSTEM:
-w2k, sp4
-outloook 2000, fully updated
-several email accounts

POSSIBLE CAUSE:
-I copied the outlook.pst and then replaced the original with the copy,
to make a defrag work better. I have done this trick many times with
no problems. I check the bit count each time I do it. Everything seemed
fine. Defrag went fine, no errors.


SYMPTOMS:
-about five zillion reminders pop up when I start outlook.

-I now have reminders for everything, where it used to be just for
scheduled appointments. Every new email gets a reminder.

-I can't post anything new to the calendar, but I can read it.

-my contacts LOOK ok, but don't work right ("No email with this address
entry" or something like that).


THINGS I HAVE TRIED ALREADY:
-help--> detect and repair

-scanpst

-deleting the extend.dat file

- /safe and /cleanreminders

-exporting calendar items. It freezes up.

-chkdsk /r

-teeth grinding (this seems to help as much as anything)


Any ideas?

-Thanks, Joe

 

[Brian Tillman]

Crossposted to outlook.calendaring.

Looks like a multipost, not a crosspost. The latter is good. The former is
bad.

POSSIBLE CAUSE:
-I copied the outlook.pst and then replaced the original with the
copy, to make a defrag work better. I have done this trick many times
with no problems. I check the bit count each time I do it. Everything
seemed fine. Defrag went fine, no errors.

Overwriting a PST with an identically named one or renaming one out of the
way and putting another in its place is a recipe for trouble. An Outlook
profile has ties to a particular PST and not only by its name. You've been
very lucky not to have been bitten up until now.

THINGS I HAVE TRIED ALREADY:

I don't see "created a new mail profile" in that list. That's the next
thing to try.

 

[Joe Tho]

whoops, I guess I called it the wrong thing. I posted the same question
to 2 different newsgroups.

ANYWAYYYY... I guess I have been lucky so far, with this
renaming/moving thing.

My next trick I think will be to start outlook in a new profile, and
try the old outlook.pst from there. You never know, it might work.

What I am really looking for is the cause of the original problem and
some way to fix it.

Thanks, JOe