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Wes Dabney
Outlook 2000 SP3
Windows 2000 SP4
No 3rd party software in outlook
The problem began when the 2 gigabyte limit on my employer's PC was reached
and outlook crashed. I truncated the file and ran the inbox repair tool,
expecting problems which of course I recieved. Many were easily corrected
and I had a fairly up-to-date backup to pull in older messages. I then split
the file so my boss could easily archive, everything was great. Five seconds
later, ~500 reminders poped up. I dismissed them, thinking that the system
was just adjusting, but no, everytime outlook is started,within a minute,
every single reminder created pops up. I removed the calender, pop ups
continued, lightened by a hundred. I did some reasearch (after disabling
reminders) and found the only way I could access these hidden reminders is
using an exchange server program MDBVU32.EXE, which I was lucky enough to
have. Using this program though is like cutting a diamond with a sledge
hammer, because the individual fields for the reminders (half of which are
in hex) aren't descriptive at all, and I have had no luck finding a legend
to decipher them. This leaves the only other option, complete deletion.
While that will solve the reminders from coming it also deleted half of my
employer's contact list. I loaded up a copy of the unfixed pst file onto an
unused machine so I could futher diagnose the problem, and have found (I
think) the source, but I have been unsuccessful in changing it and was
hoping somone else might know how. The dates for reminding have inverted
themselves, so an alarm set for 4:00-4:01pm is now 4:01-4:00pm. I could see
how this might cause the afforementioned problems, but I am only able to
view this within outlook and only on those items within the calendar, the
others seem to be tied to the contacts, and I am at a loss on where to
change the dates inside of MDBVU32.EXE. If anyone could tell me if there is
a simpler solution, or what specific field in the reminders section of
mdbvu32 relates the start and stop time, I would be in your eternal debt.
Thanks in advance,
Wes Dabney
Windows 2000 SP4
No 3rd party software in outlook
The problem began when the 2 gigabyte limit on my employer's PC was reached
and outlook crashed. I truncated the file and ran the inbox repair tool,
expecting problems which of course I recieved. Many were easily corrected
and I had a fairly up-to-date backup to pull in older messages. I then split
the file so my boss could easily archive, everything was great. Five seconds
later, ~500 reminders poped up. I dismissed them, thinking that the system
was just adjusting, but no, everytime outlook is started,within a minute,
every single reminder created pops up. I removed the calender, pop ups
continued, lightened by a hundred. I did some reasearch (after disabling
reminders) and found the only way I could access these hidden reminders is
using an exchange server program MDBVU32.EXE, which I was lucky enough to
have. Using this program though is like cutting a diamond with a sledge
hammer, because the individual fields for the reminders (half of which are
in hex) aren't descriptive at all, and I have had no luck finding a legend
to decipher them. This leaves the only other option, complete deletion.
While that will solve the reminders from coming it also deleted half of my
employer's contact list. I loaded up a copy of the unfixed pst file onto an
unused machine so I could futher diagnose the problem, and have found (I
think) the source, but I have been unsuccessful in changing it and was
hoping somone else might know how. The dates for reminding have inverted
themselves, so an alarm set for 4:00-4:01pm is now 4:01-4:00pm. I could see
how this might cause the afforementioned problems, but I am only able to
view this within outlook and only on those items within the calendar, the
others seem to be tied to the contacts, and I am at a loss on where to
change the dates inside of MDBVU32.EXE. If anyone could tell me if there is
a simpler solution, or what specific field in the reminders section of
mdbvu32 relates the start and stop time, I would be in your eternal debt.
Thanks in advance,
Wes Dabney