wrong items appearing in navigation pane

[Guest]

There was a time in recent memory (yesterday) when only my calendars appeared
in the My Calendars navigation task pane. Now suddenly, I'm living in a mixed
up world, and I honestly don't know what I clicked to make it that way. The
wrong items/folders are appearing in the wrong navigation panes:

- contacts AND calendars are appearing under My Calendars
- notes, tasks AND contacts are appearing under My Contacts
- tasks, contacts, more tasks AND calendars are appearing under My Tasks
- miraculously, only mail folders appear in the All Mail Folders pane

I have looked through the Microsoft knowledgebase and can find no reference
to how this is done (or corrected, for that matter). I want ONLY calendar
items appearing in My Calendars -- the way it used to be!

Anyone know what controls this and how I can restore the "default" view to
the navigation pane?

 

[Guest]

Try opening outlook from Start -> run -> Type in.... outlook /cleanviews.

 

[Guest]

That gives me a Windows error: "Windows cannot find 'outlook/cleanviews'.
Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a
file, click the Start button, and then click Search."

 

[Guest]

Which is the outlook version you use?

Try it correctly in the run command line...

it is outlook /cleanviews ... dont leave spaces after slash

You can also try outlook /CleanProfile

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry I didn't include that: I am running Outlook 2003 ... specifically
Outlook 2003 (11.8010.8107) SP2 as part of Microsoft Office Professional
Edition.

I run both of those in the command line (no spaces, same upper/lower as
appears in your message) and get the same basic error message for both, that
Windows cannot find "outlook/cleanviews" and "outlook/CleanProfile"

 

[Guest]

This should work. But would not if you have installed office to another
location like say d:/Myfolder/Arun/work/office. If so you have to put in the
complete path in quotes and then enter the command. for the above case , I
would enter...

"d:/Myfolder/Arun/work/office/outlook.exe" /cleanviews

If nothing works try a new profile from Mail in control panel.

 

[Guest]

I got suspicious when you said that both those commands should have worked
.... and since the program IS loaded in the default location on my C: drive,
decided it was time to REBOOT.

Amazingly enough, it seems as though that worked. I don't know why, but it
did. My various Outlook Navigation Panes now contain the proper items for the
heading ...

Thank you for your input. This is a wonderful resource.