Tasks and Flagged Items Not Appearing in To-Do Bar '07

[J. Gordon]

Using Outlook '07:
The Tasks and Flagged Items were working (appearing) normally on the To-Do bar until I deleted a few saved folders located in my Personal folders (after exporting them for backup)and then compacted my .PST file. Since this operation the area where tasks and flagged items are supposed to appear reads: "The operation failed. An object could not be found."

I also now get an error when starting up Outlook: "There was a problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders may not appear."

I'd appreciate any help.

 

[J. Gordon]

Anyone?

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello]

Try starting Outlook once with the /cleanreminders switch. If you need help
using Outlook command line switches, look here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP012185891033.aspx

 

[Techosaavy]

Try starting Outlook once with the /cleanreminders switch. If you need help
using Outlook command line switches, look here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP012185891033.aspx

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Hello,


Please use detect and repair of outlook from the Help menu.
This might resolve the issue.

 

[J. Gordon]

Thanks for the idea - I tried /cleanreminders but it did not work (I got the exact same behavior as before). I also tried /resettodobar which did not work either. [Note: I can only assume these switches were working as I ran the commands as described by the link you suggested but didn't see any way to verify that they were running/had run?]

To further clarify, It appears my reminders are actually working (even though I get the error message about them). It is the TASKS and TO-DO LIST that are not displaying in the ToDoBar. Further, when I goto the Tasks window I do not see any To-Do List items. The window is empty and says: "Cannot display the folder".

If I were to guess, I'd say somehow the To-Do List folder got deleted or corrupted during the compacting of the .PST file? Then again, I would have thought the /resettodobar would have fixed that, but it did not.

Any other ideas?

 

[J. Gordon]

Please use detect and repair of outlook from the Help menu.

This might resolve the issue.

I ran the "Office Diagnostics" (I assume this is what you meant by "detect and repair"...) The first time it did detect some error during the "Setup Diagnostics" and said it was fixed (no explanation of the specific error was given). However my problem persists. I re-ran "Office Diagnostics" a second time and got no errors whatsoever.

 

[J. Gordon]

OK I solved this.

It appears (I have no idea how this occurred) that I had two data file entries pointing to the same .PST file. I removed the duplicate entry and the to-do task bar items reappeared and the error about the reminders did not occur.

Thanks for the input.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello]

Glad to hear you got it working. Typically you get two identical copies of a
..PST in your folder list if you copy one .PST file over another -- for
example, you move to a new computer, install Outlook, open it and it creates
a blank .PST, and you overwrite that blank .PST with the .PST you used on
your old computer. You can put a .PST file anywhere you have access to from
your Windows profile so there is never any need to overwrite one .PST with
another, and you'll avoid this kind of problem.

 

[Kalen Delaney]

THANKS!

I spent most of a day struggling with this exact problem, and even posted to
the private MVP group for Outlook but got no answers. So I decided to search
the public group and found this message and your solution. The funny thing
is, I had FOUR data files pointing to the same .PST and had already removed
3 of them, but I guess I didn't restart Outlook after that. As soon as I did
that, all kinds of reminders popped up, and everything was where it should
be.

I have no idea how I got the duplicates. I did not just move my Outlook
installation.

 

[JimMad02]

Well, all of you in this thread, THANK YOU!!! I didn't even know about the
"Data File Management" function in the File menu. Why doesn't this info show
up in the Microsoft Knowledge base??????? I've been fighting this for months
upon months!!!

Jim