Re: Initialising the root folders to display

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I really miss Lantastic....

Do you know if this bug been fixed with Vista?

T

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

It's not an Office bug. You get the same thing if a network drive that's a
shortcut in Network isn't on or there and you use Windows Explorer to do
some things. That crashes Windows Explorer, which is the same bug. The
problem is in one or more of the Win32 API functions and it's been there
since 32-bit Windows was released. It might have been there in Win 3.1 but I
don't recall. It's been reported to the Office team many times and the
problem there is the use of shared Windows dialogs. The Windows team has
been aware of the problem for at least 10 years now.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Thatch" <Thatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This issue came up while I was developing an Outlook application. Also, I
posted in this section since it has a more experienced audience.

Adding/Removing/Repairing the application does not fix it. In Outlook
2003,
this problem manifests itself with a silent hang of the WHOLE file system
while in 2007, the message "Initialising the root folders to display"
appears. At least, a status message is displayed to the user.

Now, for the resolution (which a very kind user from the Windows XP
newsgroup gave me). If you have multiple network drives mounted as part of
your file system on a peer-to-peer environment and one of the systems is
not
present, Outlook (and all of Office's applications) will hang if you try
to
use the drop-down list. Not only will it hang, it actually crashes the
file
system making the machine useless. Not even Windows Explorer works. That
is
peer-to-peer technology at its absolute worst. How can a whole file system
crash when one of its network nodes is not existent or mounted??? Not even
Office 2007 works in this environment. Basically, if you use Office,
avoid
peer-to-peer configurations at all cost!!! You have to stick to
peer-to-server where the server is always online.

Being a developer, I expected something different (and an whole lot more
intelligent) from Outlook and Office. How can a whole suite of
applications
(and Windows itself) fail if one of the network peer-to-peer nodes is not
online? Even worse, in Office 2003, you get a silent hang and the only way
to
work again is to hard-boot the machine.

This is a MAJOR issue with Office on a network environment. I've got
drives
by the ying-yang on my system, from card readers, printers, music drives,
data drives, etc.. There are no words that can describe the fact that
Office
(2003 and 2007) hangs a networked system when a particular music drive is
not
online.

Enough said. I hope you can pass this major office bug to Microsoft and
have
them fix it. It's only been around since Office was created.

T


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