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OK, good. Thanks. I only have about a dozen messages in the Inbox itself. I never let it get more than a couple of screen long. But I do have quite a few subfolders off of (under?) the Inbox: Personal Folders (Unicode) Deleted Items Drafts Inbox 00 ASAP Project 1...

Not as far as I know. I don't really know what an RSS feed is. I certainly haven't enabled one on purpose. That's why the message confused me. Why would it ask about something that I have never used? And why only in Safe Mode?

A couple of months ago, I got help here in converting my old ANSI PST to the new Unicode format. I was a little panicky because it was getting close to the 2GB limit for ANSI PST files. The Unicode PST is now over 2 GB (2,133,461 KB). I am planning to develop an archive strategy to offload...

I just got home from the office. When I restarted my laptop and started Outlook, I got a message saying that Outlook wasn't closed properly and asking if I wanted to start in Safe Mode. Not knowing what to do, I said OK. When it came up, I got this message: Again, not knowing what...

No, I don't think it is ever there when a new task is first created. It appears later when the task comes due. I'm not sure if it happens when the task first comes due, after a snooze, or after a recurrence. And it doesn't happen with every task. I did a little testing and I think I...

Outlook keep adding a blank line and a line of dashes at the top of every task. If there any way to get rid of this useless and annoying behavior?

I belong to a number of professional organizations and associations. Some of them send out an enormous number of messages and have little or no capability to filter them. I would like to create a Rule to automatically redirect all messages from these organizations to a holding folder...

A couple of weeks ago, I was made aware that my PST never got converted to the new (Unicode) format when I upgraded to Office 2007. I was a little annoyed that Outlook never warned me that my PST was in an old, less reliable format with serious size limitations, but I assumed that M$FT had...

OK, thanks. I really appreciate your help. This whole process sure reinforces to me what an irresponsible company M$FT has become. I have wasted the better part of 3-4 days on what should have been a 5 minute conversion if M$FT had provided a conversion utility. Even the manual steps were filled...

As far as I can tell, the categories were not there at all. I had about 20 categories such as "Friends", "Neighbors", "Family", "Tennis", etc. When I opened a contact that was assigned to a category, no bar, colored or white, appeared across the top. I followed the steps in the tutorial. When...

With Diane's help, I was able to convert my old ANSI PST to a new Unicode PST. Everything seems to be working properly. Thanks a million Diane. Today, I went to assign a contact to a category onto to discover that none of my categories that used to exist in the old PST are in the new one. I...

That makes sense. It was not a large list, so I just redid it. Thanks.

I recently converted my PST to the new (well, not all that new) Unicode format. Today, when I tried to use an email distribution that I have used for years, I got error messages. I have attached screen shots of the messages. There are 3 screen shots. The dates indicate the order they...

For some time now (1-2 years?), I get a message every time I shut down my computer. The message box is entitled "End Program -- Outlook.exe". The body of the message is something like this: This program is not responding. To return to Windows and check the status of the program...

I would like to know how to copy views. I may need it in the future. I've reproduced the Method 3 steps below and added my comments. Can you tell me where I went wrong? 1. Add a new pst to the (File, New, Outlook Data File This appears to be incomplete. I assume it means to add a new...

Setting the old PST as the default did make a difference, but somewhat different than what I thought you meant. I tried to follow Method 3 in the referenced link, but couldn't understand the instructions. For one thing, it does not say anything about which PST should be the default, which you...

That worked. Thanks. Now all I need to do is get the views right. I couldn't get the Method 3 you recommended to work. I'll talk about that in another post.

It looks like you were right (not that I doubted it). I copied the rest of the folders to the new PST without any problems. The new PST is quite a bit smaller than the old one was. The old one was over 1.9 GB. The new one is 1.65 GB. I just noticed that my contacts are not copied over, so...

A couple of websites recommended ScanPST to avoid moving corrupt data to the new PST. Do you disagree with that? I have been having problems, but I thought it was due to the old format PST being close to the 2GB limit. Are you saying that ScanPST can be wrong or cause problems? Or just that...

Here's an update. I decided to try compacting the old ANSI PST first. It took almost 6 minutes. The file decreased from 1,904,657 to 1,892,753 saving only 12MB. Thinking that was not enough of a reduction to make a difference, I decided to move some data to the new, empty Unicode PST and...