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Will
Hi All,
So I have been running B2 since it's public release. I upgraded from 2003
to 2007 B2, had no problems doing this. My PST was about 4gig at that time.
Since then I have archived a bit off and have been performing regular backups
of the PST (since it is beta after all). When the B2TR came out I immedately
upgraded to it, but, when I lauched Outlook it crashed every time I opened
it. It would crash just as it started to create the main view for the main
POP3 PST. Eventually it would say my PST is corrupted and I would run the
SCANPST and it would create a backup and repair the file. The PST is now
only 3gig (down from the original 4gig from the 2003 upgrade). The utility
took about 4 hours to complete, and I retested and still had the same problem
and eventually it stated I needed to rescan it. Since I could not get it to
get past showing the view, I uninstalled and went back to just plain B2, the
PST file worked again and I had no problems.
On Friday I decided I'd take another stab at the upgrade. The same thing
happened. This time I downloaded the tool from "How-to-outlook.com", as I
see him posting some very informative posts on these boards. I attempted to
start Outlook in safe mode, no luck, crashed at the "creating view" screen.
The next time I tried to launch it in safemode it stated my PST was corrupt
and needed to be repaired with the SCANPST. Went through the scan process
again. Then tried to launch it again in safemode, no luck, and the strange
part, it still said my PST was corrupt. I ran the scan again and this time
it found no errors but everytime I started outlook it said my PST was damaged
and needed to be scanned. So to get past this, I created a new PST and moved
my POP3 to the new PST. This allowed Outlook to start again. When I try to
import or open the old PST or any backup of the old PST, I get the PST is
corrupt message.
So some additional info that might help.
In beta 2, I was playing around with the custom catagories, i tried starting
outlook with the option to reset the catagories but it still said corrupt PST.
I added a few RSS feeds, when I performed the first upgrade after I
downgraded, the RSS feeds dissappeared from the setting section, but the
folders where the messages would have been kept are still there. During the
recent creation of a brand new PST, the RSS folders were created by outlook,
but the settings are still not in outlook.
I played with the follow-up flag dates and used them regularly and set
custom dates as they now relate to tasks and are very useful.
I had windows desktop search and the beta to support office 2007 installed,
but it regularly crashed during boot up, so I uninstalled it before install
B2TR this time. (Although looking at the list of addins below it appears it
didn't remove itself very well)
I have a few add-ins, but none of them need to be there and I tried to start
with them all disabled. The addins are:
Duplicate Email Remover
iTunes Outlook Addin
Microsoft Exchange Outlook Add-in for Unified Messaging
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Colleague Import Add-in
Microsoft Outlook Mobile Service
Microsoft VBA for Outlook Addin
PDFMOutlook
WDS OIMapi
WL Toolbar
Microsoft Access Outlook Add-in for Data Collection and Publishing
Outlook Backup Addin
Any suggestions on what to try next would be helpful. Basically at this
point, I really only hoping to import the old PST into the new one.
Thanks
-Will
So I have been running B2 since it's public release. I upgraded from 2003
to 2007 B2, had no problems doing this. My PST was about 4gig at that time.
Since then I have archived a bit off and have been performing regular backups
of the PST (since it is beta after all). When the B2TR came out I immedately
upgraded to it, but, when I lauched Outlook it crashed every time I opened
it. It would crash just as it started to create the main view for the main
POP3 PST. Eventually it would say my PST is corrupted and I would run the
SCANPST and it would create a backup and repair the file. The PST is now
only 3gig (down from the original 4gig from the 2003 upgrade). The utility
took about 4 hours to complete, and I retested and still had the same problem
and eventually it stated I needed to rescan it. Since I could not get it to
get past showing the view, I uninstalled and went back to just plain B2, the
PST file worked again and I had no problems.
On Friday I decided I'd take another stab at the upgrade. The same thing
happened. This time I downloaded the tool from "How-to-outlook.com", as I
see him posting some very informative posts on these boards. I attempted to
start Outlook in safe mode, no luck, crashed at the "creating view" screen.
The next time I tried to launch it in safemode it stated my PST was corrupt
and needed to be repaired with the SCANPST. Went through the scan process
again. Then tried to launch it again in safemode, no luck, and the strange
part, it still said my PST was corrupt. I ran the scan again and this time
it found no errors but everytime I started outlook it said my PST was damaged
and needed to be scanned. So to get past this, I created a new PST and moved
my POP3 to the new PST. This allowed Outlook to start again. When I try to
import or open the old PST or any backup of the old PST, I get the PST is
corrupt message.
So some additional info that might help.
In beta 2, I was playing around with the custom catagories, i tried starting
outlook with the option to reset the catagories but it still said corrupt PST.
I added a few RSS feeds, when I performed the first upgrade after I
downgraded, the RSS feeds dissappeared from the setting section, but the
folders where the messages would have been kept are still there. During the
recent creation of a brand new PST, the RSS folders were created by outlook,
but the settings are still not in outlook.
I played with the follow-up flag dates and used them regularly and set
custom dates as they now relate to tasks and are very useful.
I had windows desktop search and the beta to support office 2007 installed,
but it regularly crashed during boot up, so I uninstalled it before install
B2TR this time. (Although looking at the list of addins below it appears it
didn't remove itself very well)
I have a few add-ins, but none of them need to be there and I tried to start
with them all disabled. The addins are:
Duplicate Email Remover
iTunes Outlook Addin
Microsoft Exchange Outlook Add-in for Unified Messaging
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Colleague Import Add-in
Microsoft Outlook Mobile Service
Microsoft VBA for Outlook Addin
PDFMOutlook
WDS OIMapi
WL Toolbar
Microsoft Access Outlook Add-in for Data Collection and Publishing
Outlook Backup Addin
Any suggestions on what to try next would be helpful. Basically at this
point, I really only hoping to import the old PST into the new one.
Thanks
-Will