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David Hyde - 27 Sep 2006 19:06 GMT

Suddenly my Outlook 2003 Contacts Activities tab has started to respond with
a "Cannot display this view. A Folder with that name already exists".

I have substituted the .pst files that Outlook uses for older, discarded,
files. The problem does not then occur.

Also I have run the command line switch /cleanfinders - no effect.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Sep 2006 02:08 GMT

On the Properties dialog for the contacts folder, change the Activities groups to point at the right folders.

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> Suddenly my Outlook 2003 Contacts Activities tab has started to respond with
> a "Cannot display this view. A Folder with that name already exists".
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> Also I have run the command line switch /cleanfinders - no effect.

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David Hyde - 28 Sep 2006 09:19 GMT

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Unfortunately changing the folders has no effect.

Also, if I try to do an advanced search on a contacts folder I get the
message "There are too many find dialogs open. Close tem..." I click the
"yes" button to close the dialogs and then the search produces as message
"Outlook cannot perform your search. Outlook cannot display this view.".

I have re-run the /cleanfinders option.

Regards
David Hyde

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 01 Oct 2006 19:39 GMT

Tell us more about your configuration, such as what type of data store (Exchange mailbox, .pst file) contains these contacts and what activities groups you have configured.

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David Hyde - 04 Oct 2006 09:15 GMT

Sue,

A quick and dirty solution I though would be to upgrade to Outlook 2007. It
worked.

Thanks

David Hyde

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