Or not using Beta software and expecting it to work.

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After furious head scratching, Brent Mills asked:

| Ok, I couldn't remember if it used ost files or not. I'll let you
| tell our server administrators that we can't use pst files so we need
| more space on the server. It seems you view me as an idiotic user
| that doesn't know what I'm doing. I personally don't care what you
| think of me but I'm not sure how you equate this with user error. If
| I try to use outlook after the beta installation is complete it
| crashes. If I create a different profile and use a blank ost file
| then it will let me use my pst files and doesn't crash. At least one
| other person has the same issue. If I knew why this was I would
| probably be working for microsoft.
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Dead wrong. Offline Exchange content has always been stored in OST
|| files, never PST files. Most Exchange administrators do not even
|| want PST files in their users' profiles.
|| You need to understand what you're doing and what you're saying.
|| Once you do, if you think you have a beta issue, post it clearly and
|| accurately. This looks like end user error that has nothing to do
|| with the beta. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "Brent Mills" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Just to clarify, I do mean ost files. I think outlook 2003 used
||| pst files to
||| store offline exchange content (plz correct me if I'm wrong) but
||| 2007 seems
||| to use an ost file for this purpose.
|||
||| "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?