Okay i did all that: now does that mean I will just have that old locked up
inbox in the old personal folders file forever? I can work around that, but
life would be simpler if there was a way to get rid of it.

.....rdm

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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David Mursch wrote:

Okay, I set up my email accounts and the 'work offline' cmmand
appeared; but, OL still locks up when I try to access the inbox. I
ran the Office detect and repair tool again and no joy.

Am I at the point of doing a re-install yet, and will that do any
good if the inbox in the .pst file is corrupted? The prblem is with
the inbox, not with the OL program itself. Can I create a new .pst
file by exporting from OL everything except the inbox, then just
delete the old Outlook.pst?

Rather than exporting, you'd be better off creating a new PST with
FileNewOutlook Data File (or Personal Folders File, depending on your
version, which I don't see you mention), making the new PST your delivery
location, then copying the contents of the folders in the old PST to the
new
one, excluding Inbox, as you say. This will preserve data that exporting
and importing destroys or leaves out.
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Brian Tillman