Outlook 2003 in VISTA Home Premium - Sudden Major Problem

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ChadB1216 - 18 Aug 2007 15:08 GMT

I received this error message this morning out of the blue:

>>>>>>>Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open Outlook window. The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists."<<<<

This happened after I ran Vista back-up on 8/18 in the early morning, but
that could have just been a coincidence, of course.

I surmise that an ost or pst file has become corrupt? Now what?

Thanks.

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BillR [MVP] - 18 Aug 2007 15:25 GMT

Do you connect to Exchange? If you do is the server available?
Try with anew profile via the Mail icon in Control Panel and just a POP
account.

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ChadB1216 - 18 Aug 2007 17:00 GMT

Bill, thanks for taking the time to ponder my problem.

No, I don't connect to Exchange, since I'm using Outlook at home. And I have
the POP account, as always.

Could it be that the Archive file is too big? It is 50 MB or so. If I simply
delete the archive file (since I don't need the items in it anyway), won't
Outlook simply start a new one, and this time I can configure archiving to
delete items before they accumulate again? Wonder if I just need to delete
some items....thanks.

ChadB1216

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BillR [MVP] - 20 Aug 2007 12:50 GMT

Your archive is tiny - leave it.
Try as I suggested with a new profile.

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