Can’t drag and drop in Calendar Outlook 2003

[Steve Golden]

When I try to drag an appointment from one date to another it won’t move. I
get the international no sign,ï˜. I’ve tried to copy it and then paste it
into another date and even though I’m highlighting another date it copies it
in the original date. Also if I highlight a date (other than today’s date)
and type in an appointment it will move it to today’s date. The only way I
have found to create an appointment for any future date is to change the date
in the start time: box in the new appointment dialog box. I’ve been using
Outlook Calendar since Outlook 98 and have never had this problem. And I’ve
been using it in Outlook 2003 since 2003 without this problem.

I can not pin point when it started it may have been after I installed a new
hard drive which was ghosted from the old hard drive.

I tried Detect and Repair…, it said it was successful but it did not help
with this problem

I’ve checked FAQ’s, KB and archives. I found a posting asking the same
question in Tutorials – Win.com by Judy Sep 16 2007 but there were no answers.

I’m using XP Pro Version 5.1.2006 SP2,
Office 2003 this is an Office/Home desktop, one tower 2 monitors
System is MSI Model MS-7350
I have 197 GB of free hard drive space 3 GB of ram 2.32 GB are free

Any help will be very much appreciated,

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you tried using the Inbox Repair Tool? Look for scanpst.exe and run it against the file until it reports no more errors. Also, how big is your .pst file and is it unicode (new type) or the older ansi file type (2 gig limit)?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:

| When I try to drag an appointment from one date to another it won’t
| move. I get the international no sign,ï˜. I’ve tried to copy it
| and then paste it into another date and even though I’m
| highlighting another date it copies it in the original date. Also if
| I highlight a date (other than today’s date) and type in an
| appointment it will move it to today’s date. The only way I have
| found to create an appointment for any future date is to change the
| date in the start time: box in the new appointment dialog box.
| I’ve been using Outlook Calendar since Outlook 98 and have never
| had this problem. And I’ve been using it in Outlook 2003 since
| 2003 without this problem.
|
| I can not pin point when it started it may have been after I
| installed a new hard drive which was ghosted from the old hard drive.
|
| I tried Detect and Repair…, it said it was successful but it did
| not help with this problem
|
| I’ve checked FAQ’s, KB and archives. I found a posting asking
| the same question in Tutorials – Win.com by Judy Sep 16 2007 but
| there were no answers.
|
| I’m using XP Pro Version 5.1.2006 SP2,
| Office 2003 this is an Office/Home desktop, one tower 2 monitors
| System is MSI Model MS-7350
| I have 197 GB of free hard drive space 3 GB of ram 2.32 GB are free
|
| Any help will be very much appreciated,

 

[Steve Golden]

Milly,
Thank you I ran the Repair Tool. It found a bad fill and it fixed it. I
ran it again to make sure and it came up clean. However this did not fix the
problem I’m having dragging and dropping appointments on the Calendar. I'm
not having any trouble in the mail part of Outlook only in the Calendar (that
I know of). My Outlook .pst fill is 1.66 GB. There are also 3
Attach_Practice1.pst that are all about 2.19 GB each. And the Repair Tool
made a backup fill that's about 1 GB. I don’t know if these counts. I don’t
know how to tell if it is Unicode or ansi.
Thanks,

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

To see what format your .pst file uses, go to File->Data File Management. Does it say 97-2002 next to the Personal Folders file? If yes, it is the older file type and you are getting close to the point where it can become unusable.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:

| Milly,
| Thank you I ran the Repair Tool. It found a bad fill and it fixed
| it. I
| ran it again to make sure and it came up clean. However this did not
| fix the problem I’m having dragging and dropping appointments on
| the Calendar. I'm not having any trouble in the mail part of Outlook
| only in the Calendar (that
| I know of). My Outlook .pst fill is 1.66 GB. There are also 3
| Attach_Practice1.pst that are all about 2.19 GB each. And the
| Repair Tool made a backup fill that's about 1 GB. I don’t know if
| these counts. I don’t know how to tell if it is Unicode or ansi.
| Thanks,
|
|| Have you tried using the Inbox Repair Tool? Look for scanpst.exe
|| and run it against the file until it reports no more errors. Also,
|| how big is your .pst file and is it unicode (new type) or the older
|| ansi file type (2 gig limit)?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:
||
||| When I try to drag an appointment from one date to another it
||| won’t move. I get the international no sign,ïÂËœ.
||| I’ve tried to copy it and then paste it into another date
||| and even though I’m
||| highlighting another date it copies it in the original date. Also
||| if
||| I highlight a date (other than today’s date) and type in an
||| appointment it will move it to today’s date. The only way I
||| have found to create an appointment for any future date is to
||| change the
||| date in the start time: box in the new appointment dialog box.
||| I’ve been using Outlook Calendar since Outlook 98 and have
||| never
||| had this problem. And I’ve been using it in Outlook 2003
||| since 2003 without this problem.
|||
||| I can not pin point when it started it may have been after I
||| installed a new hard drive which was ghosted from the old hard
||| drive.
|||
||| I tried Detect and Repair…, it said it was successful but it
||| did
||| not help with this problem
|||
||| I’ve checked FAQ’s, KB and archives. I found a
||| posting asking the same question in Tutorials – Win.com by
||| Judy Sep 16 2007 but there were no answers.
|||
||| I’m using XP Pro Version 5.1.2006 SP2,
||| Office 2003 this is an Office/Home desktop, one tower 2 monitors
||| System is MSI Model MS-7350
||| I have 197 GB of free hard drive space 3 GB of ram 2.32 GB are free
|||
||| Any help will be very much appreciated,

 

[Steve Golden]

Milly,
Sorry for dropping the ball. I thought I had responded to your last help
entree. I know I wrote a reply but either I did not send it or it is still
in cyber space.

Anyhow
I don’t see 97-2002 anywhere on the Outlook Data Files. If it is not the
older file type what is the next thing I should try?

Thanks again for the help
--
Steve Golden

To see what format your .pst file uses, go to File->Data File Management. Does it say 97-2002 next to the Personal Folders file? If yes, it is the older file type and you are getting close to the point where it can become unusable.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:

| Milly,
| Thank you I ran the Repair Tool. It found a bad fill and it fixed
| it. I
| ran it again to make sure and it came up clean. However this did not
| fix the problem I’m having dragging and dropping appointments on
| the Calendar. I'm not having any trouble in the mail part of Outlook
| only in the Calendar (that
| I know of). My Outlook .pst fill is 1.66 GB. There are also 3
| Attach_Practice1.pst that are all about 2.19 GB each. And the
| Repair Tool made a backup fill that's about 1 GB. I don’t know if
| these counts. I don’t know how to tell if it is Unicode or ansi.
| Thanks,
|
|| Have you tried using the Inbox Repair Tool? Look for scanpst.exe
|| and run it against the file until it reports no more errors. Also,
|| how big is your .pst file and is it unicode (new type) or the older
|| ansi file type (2 gig limit)?
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:
||
||| When I try to drag an appointment from one date to another it
||| won’t move. I get the international no sign,ïÂÂËœ.
||| I’ve tried to copy it and then paste it into another date
||| and even though I’m
||| highlighting another date it copies it in the original date. Also
||| if
||| I highlight a date (other than today’s date) and type in an
||| appointment it will move it to today’s date. The only way I
||| have found to create an appointment for any future date is to
||| change the
||| date in the start time: box in the new appointment dialog box.
||| I’ve been using Outlook Calendar since Outlook 98 and have
||| never
||| had this problem. And I’ve been using it in Outlook 2003
||| since 2003 without this problem.
|||
||| I can not pin point when it started it may have been after I
||| installed a new hard drive which was ghosted from the old hard
||| drive.
|||
||| I tried Detect and Repair…, it said it was successful but it
||| did
||| not help with this problem
|||
||| I’ve checked FAQ’s, KB and archives. I found a
||| posting asking the same question in Tutorials – Win.com by
||| Judy Sep 16 2007 but there were no answers.
|||
||| I’m using XP Pro Version 5.1.2006 SP2,
||| Office 2003 this is an Office/Home desktop, one tower 2 monitors
||| System is MSI Model MS-7350
||| I have 197 GB of free hard drive space 3 GB of ram 2.32 GB are free
|||
||| Any help will be very much appreciated,

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

That only means that you are using the newer unicode format for your ..pst file which can hold up to 20 gigs by default. So, that is not your problem.

Hmmm. Have you tried clearing the forms cache? Tools->options->other->advanced->custom forms->manage forms.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:

| Milly,
| Sorry for dropping the ball. I thought I had responded to your last
| help entree. I know I wrote a reply but either I did not send it or
| it is still in cyber space.
|
| Anyhow
| I don’t see 97-2002 anywhere on the Outlook Data Files. If it is
| not the older file type what is the next thing I should try?
|
| Thanks again for the help
|
|| To see what format your .pst file uses, go to File->Data File
|| Management. Does it say 97-2002 next to the Personal Folders file?
|| If yes, it is the older file type and you are getting close to the
|| point where it can become unusable.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:
||
||| Milly,
||| Thank you I ran the Repair Tool. It found a bad fill and it fixed
||| it. I
||| ran it again to make sure and it came up clean. However this did not
||| fix the problem I’m having dragging and dropping
||| appointments on the Calendar. I'm not having any trouble in the
||| mail part of Outlook only in the Calendar (that
||| I know of). My Outlook .pst fill is 1.66 GB. There are also 3
||| Attach_Practice1.pst that are all about 2.19 GB each. And the
||| Repair Tool made a backup fill that's about 1 GB. I don’t
||| know if these counts. I don’t know how to tell if it is
||| Unicode or ansi. Thanks,
|||
|||| Have you tried using the Inbox Repair Tool? Look for scanpst.exe
|||| and run it against the file until it reports no more errors. Also,
|||| how big is your .pst file and is it unicode (new type) or the older
|||| ansi file type (2 gig limit)?
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:
||||
||||| When I try to drag an appointment from one date to another it
||||| won’t move. I get the international no
||||| sign,ïÂÂËœ. I’ve tried to copy it and
||||| then paste it into another date
||||| and even though I’m
||||| highlighting another date it copies it in the original date. Also
||||| if
||||| I highlight a date (other than today’s date) and
||||| type in an appointment it will move it to
||||| today’s date. The only way I have found to
||||| create an appointment for any future date is to
||||| change the
||||| date in the start time: box in the new appointment dialog box.
||||| I’ve been using Outlook Calendar since Outlook
||||| 98 and have never
||||| had this problem. And I’ve been using it in
||||| Outlook 2003
||||| since 2003 without this problem.
|||||
||||| I can not pin point when it started it may have been after I
||||| installed a new hard drive which was ghosted from the old hard
||||| drive.
|||||
||||| I tried Detect and Repair…, it said it was
||||| successful but it
||||| did
||||| not help with this problem
|||||
||||| I’ve checked FAQ’s, KB and
||||| archives. I found a posting asking the same question in
||||| Tutorials – Win.com by
||||| Judy Sep 16 2007 but there were no answers.
|||||
||||| I’m using XP Pro Version 5.1.2006 SP2,
||||| Office 2003 this is an Office/Home desktop, one tower 2 monitors
||||| System is MSI Model MS-7350
||||| I have 197 GB of free hard drive space 3 GB of ram 2.32 GB are
||||| free
|||||
||||| Any help will be very much appreciated,

 

[Steve Golden]

Milly,
Thanks again. I was just about to write telling you I’ve fixed the problem.
I went into the Outlook Data Files Box (the one you told me about) Added a
new Data File. I made sure to make it the new Unicode. Exported my old data
to it; renamed it. And that seem to have fixed all of the problems. I'm
keeping the old one as a backup for the time being.

Thanks for the help,

--
Steve Golden

That only means that you are using the newer unicode format for your ..pst file which can hold up to 20 gigs by default. So, that is not your problem.

Hmmm. Have you tried clearing the forms cache? Tools->options->other->advanced->custom forms->manage forms.


--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:

| Milly,
| Sorry for dropping the ball. I thought I had responded to your last
| help entree. I know I wrote a reply but either I did not send it or
| it is still in cyber space.
|
| Anyhow
| I don’t see 97-2002 anywhere on the Outlook Data Files. If it is
| not the older file type what is the next thing I should try?
|
| Thanks again for the help
|
|| To see what format your .pst file uses, go to File->Data File
|| Management. Does it say 97-2002 next to the Personal Folders file?
|| If yes, it is the older file type and you are getting close to the
|| point where it can become unusable.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:
||
||| Milly,
||| Thank you I ran the Repair Tool. It found a bad fill and it fixed
||| it. I
||| ran it again to make sure and it came up clean. However this did not
||| fix the problem I’m having dragging and dropping
||| appointments on the Calendar. I'm not having any trouble in the
||| mail part of Outlook only in the Calendar (that
||| I know of). My Outlook .pst fill is 1.66 GB. There are also 3
||| Attach_Practice1.pst that are all about 2.19 GB each. And the
||| Repair Tool made a backup fill that's about 1 GB. I don’t
||| know if these counts. I don’t know how to tell if it is
||| Unicode or ansi. Thanks,
|||
|||| Have you tried using the Inbox Repair Tool? Look for scanpst.exe
|||| and run it against the file until it reports no more errors. Also,
|||| how big is your .pst file and is it unicode (new type) or the older
|||| ansi file type (2 gig limit)?
||||
|||| --ÂÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Steve Golden asked:
||||
||||| When I try to drag an appointment from one date to another it
||||| won’t move. I get the international no
||||| sign,ïÂÂÂËœ. I’ve tried to copy it and
||||| then paste it into another date
||||| and even though I’m
||||| highlighting another date it copies it in the original date. Also
||||| if
||||| I highlight a date (other than today’s date) and
||||| type in an appointment it will move it to
||||| today’s date. The only way I have found to
||||| create an appointment for any future date is to
||||| change the
||||| date in the start time: box in the new appointment dialog box.
||||| I’ve been using Outlook Calendar since Outlook
||||| 98 and have never
||||| had this problem. And I’ve been using it in
||||| Outlook 2003
||||| since 2003 without this problem.
|||||
||||| I can not pin point when it started it may have been after I
||||| installed a new hard drive which was ghosted from the old hard
||||| drive.
|||||
||||| I tried Detect and Repair…, it said it was
||||| successful but it
||||| did
||||| not help with this problem
|||||
||||| I’ve checked FAQ’s, KB and
||||| archives. I found a posting asking the same question in
||||| Tutorials – Win.com by
||||| Judy Sep 16 2007 but there were no answers.
|||||
||||| I’m using XP Pro Version 5.1.2006 SP2,
||||| Office 2003 this is an Office/Home desktop, one tower 2 monitors
||||| System is MSI Model MS-7350
||||| I have 197 GB of free hard drive space 3 GB of ram 2.32 GB are
||||| free
|||||
||||| Any help will be very much appreciated,