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Old April 18th 06, 01:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Default Outlook won't open because it cannot open outlook.ost

Control panel-mail icon-profiles-delete. Create a new one configured to
use your ISP POP3 account.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Soheil asked:

| PLease HELP!
| I installed outlook 2003 for the first time and then I ran it. It ask
| me to set-up a email account. I had many options and I thought I had
| to choose MS Exchange Server. After that is asked for MS E S and
| mailbox. I put www.hotmail.com and my email for the mailbox. Then it
| gave me an error that cannot connect. I click ok, cancel at no matter
| what I do I get the same message: unable to open your default e-mail
| folder. The file C:\Documents\....\Outlook\outlook.ost is not an
| offline folder file. And the it closes. I unintalled. After
| reinstalling I get the same message it's still looking for
| www.hotmail.com and my email address. It seems it saved it somewhere.


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