Man, I've been on the useless nokia USA support line 3 nights in a row trying to get my 6620 to sync w/ Outlook 2003 (w/ Office SP1). I keep getting 'failed to open outlook' error. 😡
1st I installed 6.1 PC Suite which came on the CD from ATTWS. Then I downloaded 6.3 from nokia.com. I called US support and they said use 6.2 from NokiaUSA.com.
I rebuilt my Outlook 2003 profile. I Un-installed ran reg clean and re-installed 6.2. I still get the dreaded 'failed to open' error. I can't even change the settings. When I bring up the advanced menu to alter the profile, the old profile shows up in the combo box which perplexes me b/c the profile was deleted. Then when I switch to the new profile and click OK the Sync applet window turns white, doesn't redraw and the sync process just bloats in memory usage in the process tab in task manager. Never responds again and I have to kill it on the process tab.
I'm sure that there is something funky going on with my Outlook PSTs. I'm not running in Exchange mode. The irking thing is that my Palm syncs just fine.
Does anyone know of any alternative syncing software?
Thanks,
Dave
After all of the above, I completely uninstalled Outlook and reinstalled it. New PST, but it looks like Windows keeps the profiles around because my old profile was still there after the reinstall. Still didn't work. I think it maybe has something to do with XP Home or something. I am able to synch to my Outlook at work (which runs in Exchange mode) so at least my work stuff is on my phone. I am able to synch my Palm both places so that is my hack workaround to get everything synched once a month or so. I still haven't tried Oxygen. I hear that might work.
devehf wrote:After all of the above, I completely uninstalled Outlook and reinstalled it. New PST, but it looks like Windows keeps the profiles around because my old profile was still there after the reinstall. Still didn't work. I think it maybe has something to do with XP Home or something. I am able to synch to my Outlook at work (which runs in Exchange mode) so at least my work stuff is on my phone. I am able to synch my Palm both places so that is my hack workaround to get everything synched once a month or so. I still haven't tried Oxygen. I hear that might work.
I can't sync unless I use Detect and Repair each time in Outlook, but it keeps breaking. This is driving me INSANE! Nokia says to call Microsoft and Microsoft says to call Nokia!
I just installed 6.50 from nokia.com. I'm trying to get my BlueSoleil bluetooth going. Still waiting on BlueSoleil to update their drivers.
I was finally able to get PC Sync to behave after upgrading. I would try creating a brand new profile and new PST file. It sounds like you might have a corruption.
Check this site out for the best Outlook help:
www.slipstick.com
devehf wrote:I just installed 6.50 from nokia.com. I'm trying to get my BlueSoleil bluetooth going. Still waiting on BlueSoleil to update their drivers.I was finally able to get PC Sync to behave after upgrading. I would try creating a brand new profile and new PST file. It sounds like you might have a corruption.
Check this site out for the best Outlook help:
www.slipstick.com
Thanks, but didn't find any real answers at slipstick. It's definitely something weird with Outlook 2002 and possibly with SP3. I suspect some sort of rights management or security issue.
Again, I can resolve it by using Detect and Repair..but that involved putting my Office XP CD back in the drive, it takes sometime to do the "Detect and Repair"...and the problem always comes back. There has got to be a way to solve this for good!
I've seen hundreds of posts on the net about this exact issue, but no solutions. Looks like most people get fed up with the problem and finally give up.
sspratt wrote:I've seen hundreds of posts on the net about this exact issue, but no solutions. Looks like most people get fed up with the problem and finally give up.
Me too. I don't have a symbian phone (Nokia 6610) but I also got the "Failed to open Outlook" message - and it used to work before. Then I realised that if I do NOT password protect my .pst files it works....