On Aug 25, 6:05 am, "BillR [MVP]" wrote:
a few notes on this -
DON'T import he PST. Importing can cause issues. One can open a PST file and
copy data over. Another option (if the PST is safe to use and has no errors
in it) is to create a new profile with a new PST, add the old PST to the
profile and then set the old PST as default.
Rules can be exported and imported via the Options button in Rules and
Alerts. The rules will be there but sometimes they need to be modified to
get them to work.

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On Aug 15, 8:49 pm, "BillR [MVP]" wrote:
totally strange.

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Bill R MVP"sheiman" wrote in message

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Hi, Bill,

In attempting to solve a different Office2007problem (horrid
performance)
I removed Desktop Search. After rebooting once Search was removed, I
found
that theTo-DoBarproblems had disappeared along with (some of) the
performance problems.

Strange.

thanks,
Michelle

"BillR [MVP]" wrote:

both. It will show if the profile is corrupt and, if so act as a new
one.
Creating a new profile won't effect your current one. Just add a POP3
account to it.

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"sheiman" wrote in message
news Hi, Bill R,

Here's what I have done that is recommended in the knowledge base:

* Selected/clicked "Tasks" in theTo-DoBaroptions dialog
* Selected/clicked "Display...Tasks...To-DoBar...etc." in the
Personal
Folders properties dialog

I'm a bit leery about opening a new profile because it seems like
opening
another potential can of worms in order to address a relatively
simple
problem. My profile is complicated--I have 20 POP email accounts
and
one
Exchange email account, as well as a huge (3G) pst file, therefore I
fear
even more issues when creating a new profile. Do you think that's a
resolution, or is it simply a trouble-shooting technique?

thanks,
michelle

"BillR [MVP]" wrote:

What have you done that is recommended in the knowledge base?
You could try with a new profile and open your old PST and copy the
data
over.

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"sheiman" wrote in message
...
Outlook2007. In Calendar view, I have theTo-DoBaropen. I've
check-boxed
Date Navigator, Appointments andTasks. Date Navigator and
Appointments
appear, but in place ofTasksi get message: "The operation
failed.
An
object could not be found."

Going to the folder view for All Task Items if i selectTo-DoList,
i
get
the message: "Cannot display the folder." However, if in the
same
folder
view for All Task Items, i selectTasks, i am able to see all my
tasks.

I have gone to Personal Folders, and in its properties, i have
selected
Display Reminders andTasksfrom this Folder in theTo-DoBar.

So, even though i'm doing everything recommended in the knowledge
base,
i
still have the problem.

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Hi, Bill,

Thanks for all your help, Bill & others on the group.

Here is a caveat for those who want to use the method of creating a
new profile to fix this problem: many of your customizations will be
lost and have to be re-created in the new profile. This cure may be
worse than the problem.

For example, to attempt to fix this problem as recommended, I created
a new profile and then imported my old pst file. This process took 5
hours (pst file is over 3G for me), during which time, my email &
calendar were unavailable to me. Once the import had finished, I
found that my extensive list of categories (over 50, with 14 color
schemes matrixed across the 50 categories), which i assign to all my
contacts and calendar items, had not been imported. I didn't look to
see if my email rules (17) had been imported; I do know that my email
accounts/addresses (24) had not been imported.

Considering the hours it had taken me to customize Outlook, I decided
to abandon the 5+ hours of effort and the n hours of diagnosis already
spent on this current problem and just live with the problem of no
Tasks in the To-Do bar. As a business person, I can't afford to spend
2+ business days of non-productivity diagnosing problems with
productivity tools. This is only my experience and my requirements;
yours may vary. I just want to say to be wary of diagnostic processes
that take many hours and/or work-arounds that require much re-do of
your preferences.

Sigh...

Thanks,

Michelle

Thanks, Bill,

I did not realize one could open a PST rather than import it. Nor did
I realize that one could point a new profile to an old PST.

michelle