Outlook Help!!

Krieves · Post by **Krieves** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:59 pm

My Outlook broke. I am using MS Outlook (not Express) as my mail client. This morning it starting giving me an error message when I try to send an email. The error says that my outlook.pst file is being used by another program. I can receive mail without problem, but I just can't send. I'm running virus and spyware software, so I don't think that's the problem.

Does anyone have any ideas what's wrong?

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:25 pm

sure sounds like a virus to me...

The_Dude · Post by **The_Dude** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:28 pm

I'm sure you've tried, but restart your computer.

Restarting will solve quite a few problems computer-wise. Unless it's major, obviously.

Krieves · Post by **Krieves** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:33 pm

Yeah, I've rebooting a dozen times. Didn't work. I thinking that somewhere I have an email message somewhere that's corrupt and it makes Outlook think that it's open somewhere else. Grrr this is frustrating!

Other suggestions are more than welcome.

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:35 pm

Go to task manager (control alt delete) and shut down any programs that are running in the background that you dont need or are not using.

Krieves · Post by **Krieves** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:55 pm

There's nothing running in the background.

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:02 pm

Krieves · Post by **Krieves** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:52 pm

This has been making me crazy, but I finally figured it out. I had a corrupt email in my sent folder. It wouldn't let me delete it. What I had to do is export all folders to another file. Then run scanpst.exe on that file. Then copy it in to the outlook directory and replace outlook.pst with the new file.

From now on, I'm gonna make weekly pst backups. It'll save my nerves.

Garr · Post by **Garr** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:57 pm

Are you running MS Messenger?

Krieves · Post by **Krieves** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:20 pm

Nope. And I just noticed that some of sub-folders are empty. This has been a pain in the a$$.