Outlook 2007 won't work with pst files

**Brent Mills** · May 26th 06, 12:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation

Sorry, I forgot you had asked this. They're on my local drive.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

PMJI, but where were these .pst files located? Not on a network drive, are they?

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"Brent Mills" wrote in message ...
Sorry, I'll go through it step by step to the best of my memory. It's pretty
similar to simkin's post.

1. I had outlook 2003 set up with an exchange connection which auto archived
my older mail to 2 pst files.
2. I installed 2007 and selected upgrade.
3. When I opened up outlook it went through the "migrating account settings"
spiel and then just hung with no error messages until I killed the process.
None of the other 2007 apps had any problems.
4. After messing with this awhile I went into the mail configuration in
control panel and deleted the 2 pst files off of my mail profile.
5. This let outlook open and function as normal but when I tried adding the
pst files back to my profile in the control panel app or through data file
management in outlook it caused it to hang again.
6. I tried creating a new mail profile in the control panel app and
associated it with a new ost file (I tried this with the one that outlook
initially created and it does not work) and once my mail resynched with
exchange I tried adding my pst files in outlook and it worked fine.

I looked through my error logs and did find one error. Hopefully this means
something to someone.

EventType offdiag12, P1
f8a78357-e48c-458e-8849-d14ea44739c770833cf6-e11c-4de3-ad51-caadb50e6ac6, P2
NIL, P3 NIL, P4 NIL, P5 NIL, P6 NIL, P7 NIL, P8 NIL, P9 NIL, P10 NIL.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I assume you mean PST files, not OST files.
So let me get this straight. You did an in place upgrade of an Outlook 2003
profile that had 3 PST files, one default, 2 for archive. Outlook 2007
failed to open with no error message, yet you somehow opened it and removed
the 2 archive PST files. I'm having trouble following your post.
Outlook 2007 is uniquely poor at handling connections to PST files. An
accurate account of your problem would be helpful in sorting this out.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Brent Mills" wrote in message
...
Simkin is right, it seems to be something with the ost file. I took your
and
sue's suggestion and created a new mail profile with a new ost file and
now i
can add my old archive data files without problem. In answer to your
question I was removing the pst data files that were associated with my
profile through the mail interface in control panel.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Always follow an attempt at an in place upgrade by creating a new profile
from scratch.
Exactly what files are you "removing" and how?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Brent Mills" wrote in message
...
I had 2003 on my machine and the only choice it gave me was to upgrade.
It
migrated all my settings and data files itself. This is actually the
beta
2
that was posted to msdn yesterday so I don't know if this is a new
ability.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No.
Why would you "upgrade" to a beta? State more clearly what you did to
migrate your Outlook data to a beta installation.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Brent Mills" wrote in message
...
I had outlook 2003 set up on my computer with 2 pst files to archive
my
older
mail to. When I upgraded to 2007 it now locks up when I try and
open
the
program. If I remove my pst archives then it runs without a
problem.
Anyone
else had similar issues?

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