Why I can't open OFT files anymore

[Lance]

We use outlook as a database and on the network we export contact as OFT to
save them on a general computer, but we can't anymore! Why is Microsoft
always create mess with every update, it was working fine before! Anyone has
an idea how i can get it to work again. Remove SP3?

Thanks

 

[Raul]

This was an intentional design change with SP 3 for Outlook ,there a
registry setting to revert it back to the SP 2 behavior

 

[Lance]

I removed SP3 and it's back to normal now, will avoid major update in the
future in case of any "Intentional design change" that cause problem to work!

This was an intentional design change with SP 3 for Outlook ,there a
registry setting to revert it back to the SP 2 behavior

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Regards

Rahul Thomas [MSFT]

We use outlook as a database and on the network we export contact as OFT
to
save them on a general computer, but we can't anymore! Why is Microsoft
always create mess with every update, it was working fine before! Anyone
has
an idea how i can get it to work again. Remove SP3?

Thanks