Re: "Outlook 2007 has encountered a problem"

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You have checked Control Panel->Mail Icon->Data Files and ensured that it is pointing to the correct .pst file? Where is the one it opened by mistake? If you delete that one, what happens?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Charles W Davis asked:

| Fist hickup in 3 1/2 months. Outlook 2007 stopped working and said
| that it had to restart, I replied OK. On the restart, it attempted to
| use a .pst from the default location. On this Vista Ultimate, I have
| the .pst in a folder under Documents for easy back up.
|
| I closed Outlook and on reopening it went to the correct .pst. Is
| there a setting that will enable the .pst to be located on the
| recovery?
.

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