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November 19th 06, 04:34 PM
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OL2003 won't unlock
Hi Experts,
A friend wound up running autoupdate through a wireless aircard while driving, and the update failed part way through. When he launches Outlook 2003 his .pst files now show as locked by another process or application. He has restarted a few times with no change, so the unlock drop isn;t happening. Can anyone provide any pointers on how to manually remove the lock? Or pointers on what the best recovery option would be in this instance? Cheers! 
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November 19th 06, 07:46 PM
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OL2003 won't unlock
chkdsk drive letter
"Fokinel" wrote in message ups.com... Hi Experts, A friend wound up running autoupdate through a wireless aircard while driving, and the update failed part way through. When he launches Outlook 2003 his .pst files now show as locked by another process or application. He has restarted a few times with no change, so the unlock drop isn;t happening. Can anyone provide any pointers on how to manually remove the lock? Or pointers on what the best recovery option would be in this instance? Cheers!
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November 20th 06, 05:37 PM
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OL2003 won't unlock
Thanks for the pointer - made no difference tho. Any other suggestions
on how to remove a terminally stuck lock? neo [mvp outlook] wrote: chkdsk drive letter
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November 21st 06, 12:29 AM
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OL2003 won't unlock
Did you try the inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) against the PST file?
"Fokinel" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks for the pointer - made no difference tho. Any other suggestions on how to remove a terminally stuck lock? neo [mvp outlook] wrote: chkdsk drive letter
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November 22nd 06, 05:21 AM
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OL2003 won't unlock
Yes, that was the first thing he tried, and it stopped on an error.
Most recent says the PST is in use by an app or process. He's tried killing every process he has running but it's still in use by something. neo [mvp outlook] wrote: Did you try the inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) against the PST file? "Fokinel" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks for the pointer - made no difference tho. Any other suggestions on how to remove a terminally stuck lock? neo [mvp outlook] wrote: chkdsk drive letter
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November 22nd 06, 01:14 PM
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OL2003 won't unlock
Hmm... well I was about to suggest antivirus getting in the way, but if he
has killed every process, then this idea runs thin. Get the same behavior on another machine with this PST file? "Fokinel" wrote in message oups.com... Yes, that was the first thing he tried, and it stopped on an error. Most recent says the PST is in use by an app or process. He's tried killing every process he has running but it's still in use by something. neo [mvp outlook] wrote: Did you try the inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) against the PST file? "Fokinel" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks for the pointer - made no difference tho. Any other suggestions on how to remove a terminally stuck lock? neo [mvp outlook] wrote: chkdsk drive letter
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