outlook 2001 and imacs

[yasudab]

We have outlook and they work with exchange. We are using them on
imacs. When I try to open outlook, it says can't write to disk. you
need to be an administrator. I am an administrator and I have tried as
root. I have rebuilt permissions. I have tried this on 2 different
Imacs and I get
the same message. Outlook works on every model of macs except these
imacs. I notice that this problem only happens in Panther on Imacs.
In Jaguar, outlook looks fine on imacs. Even when outlook works in
Jaguar, I have tried updating to panther, and when I update to
panther, outlook stops working, giving an error about communicating
with the server. Jaguar outlook works fine on the same imac. Does
anyone have any ideas as to what to do? I am stumped.

 

[William Smith]

We have outlook and they work with exchange. We are using them on
imacs. When I try to open outlook, it says can't write to disk. you
need to be an administrator. I am an administrator and I have tried as
root. I have rebuilt permissions. I have tried this on 2 different
Imacs and I get
the same message. Outlook works on every model of macs except these
imacs. I notice that this problem only happens in Panther on Imacs.
In Jaguar, outlook looks fine on imacs. Even when outlook works in
Jaguar, I have tried updating to panther, and when I update to
panther, outlook stops working, giving an error about communicating
with the server. Jaguar outlook works fine on the same imac. Does
anyone have any ideas as to what to do? I am stumped.

This problem has been around since Panther was released and to the best
of my knowledge nothing has been found to correct it.

Work arounds typically include moving the entire Outlook 2001 folder to
another disk or partition (even a disk image created by the Disk
Utility) and running it from there. Many folks have reported luck with
this option.

I was able to also completely erase and then reinstall a system, install
all system updates and then install Outlook 2001 and get it to work. But
this is probably overkill if you are able to do the above idea.

Hope this helps! bill

 

[Harvey Yancey [MSFT]]

You may want to take a look at this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837344

Regards,

Harvey Yancey [MSFT]
Exchange Client/Server Infrastructure
(e-mail address removed)

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