Comments on: Are Any of You Outlook Experts? http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/09/14/are-any-of-you-outlook-experts/ A personal finance blog dedicated to discussing such topics as budgeting, asset allocation, 401K, IRA, cash flow, insurance, financial planning, portfolio management, and other areas in personal finance. Thu, 24 May 2012 01:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Joe http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/09/14/are-any-of-you-outlook-experts/comment-page-1/#comment-29671 Joe Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:46:55 +0000 http://allthingsfinancialblog.com/2006/09/14/are-any-of-you-outlook-experts/#comment-29671 I installed the first Office Beta and found the new Outlook unusable--it crashed several times a day on me. I uninstalled the beta, re-installed the previous version, and everything seemed to still be there. Of course, your mileage may vary... I'm a professional Windows software developer and just have to say that I try not to use Microsoft's beta products. They just seem to have too many bugs. Once, they're released, then I install them, but not before. I installed the first Office Beta and found the new Outlook unusable–it crashed several times a day on me. I uninstalled the beta, re-installed the previous version, and everything seemed to still be there. Of course, your mileage may vary…

I’m a professional Windows software developer and just have to say that I try not to use Microsoft’s beta products. They just seem to have too many bugs. Once, they’re released, then I install them, but not before.

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]]> By: Penguinista http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/09/14/are-any-of-you-outlook-experts/comment-page-1/#comment-25821 Penguinista Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:42:32 +0000 http://allthingsfinancialblog.com/2006/09/14/are-any-of-you-outlook-experts/#comment-25821 With questions like this, you are going to attract the Linux advocates in the audience. I'm certainly one of them. I could simply post flames about MS products, but that just seems petty. Instead, I think there's a more important point to be made. MS and their partisans claim that one of the drawbacks to open source software is that there isn't a company standing behind it. If one of your readers gives you a solution to this problem, you are getting the same kind of support that the open source community routinely supplies. Microsoft charges money for their products. If they want to claim that they are better and that their support is better, they owe their customers a better product and better support. I'm not holding my breath. I'm using Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird. With questions like this, you are going to attract the Linux advocates in the audience. I’m certainly one of them. I could simply post flames about MS products, but that just seems petty.

Instead, I think there’s a more important point to be made. MS and their partisans claim that one of the drawbacks to open source software is that there isn’t a company standing behind it.

If one of your readers gives you a solution to this problem, you are getting the same kind of support that the open source community routinely supplies. Microsoft charges money for their products. If they want to claim that they are better and that their support is better, they owe their customers a better product and better support. I’m not holding my breath. I’m using Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird.

]]> By: HC http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/09/14/are-any-of-you-outlook-experts/comment-page-1/#comment-25707 HC Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:44:56 +0000 http://allthingsfinancialblog.com/2006/09/14/are-any-of-you-outlook-experts/#comment-25707 Having spent a lot of time moving Outlook/Outlook Express files over the past few months (the joys of a new PC), I can tell you that you're usually going to find your email folders in an "Application Data" subfolder, often under "Documents and Settings/username". (You might need to enable "show hidden files and folders" to find it.) Some other places it might be found are listed <a href="http://www.argentuma.com/backup/outlook-backup.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. If you can find those, then you should be able to copy them elsewhere, reinstall Outlook, and then import them back in. Having spent a lot of time moving Outlook/Outlook Express files over the past few months (the joys of a new PC), I can tell you that you’re usually going to find your email folders in an “Application Data” subfolder, often under “Documents and Settings/username”. (You might need to enable “show hidden files and folders” to find it.)

Some other places it might be found are listed here.

If you can find those, then you should be able to copy them elsewhere, reinstall Outlook, and then import them back in.

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