Re: Outlook 2003 "Operation Failed"

Try creating her a new Profile.

Go into the Windows Control Panel. Open the MAIL Icon. Click Show
Profiles and create a new one. That'll give her a new PST. Then open
the old PST and move any old email over into the new PST by dragging
it, folder by folder.

Note that you can TRY setting the new Profile to the same PST, but it
sounds like something is corrupt there. So it might be wiser to go
with a new one and just reset it as the default and open the old one
and move the mail over that she might need...the old folder.

If you need help understanding how to open another PST and move
folders, see this article...

Organizing Outlook Mail
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=52

Good luck...

Dian D. Chapman
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:33:25 -0800, lkthompson
<lkthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Outlook closes at random for one of my coworkers. When she tries to open it
again, the error message is Operation Failed.

I used Help > Detect and Repair, created a new email profile, and even
uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2003..but none of this helps. The only way
to bring
Outlook back is to totally reboot the computer. Once rebooted, Outlook will
open, but it will eventually shut down again, which is an irritating cycle.
We even had her computer taken away and re-imaged, and this didn't fix the
problem!!!

Any ideas?

Thanks

.

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