I was watching a video on Youtube and then the computer does a quirky thing that it typically has been doing for about a month. It freezes and repeats 1 second of audio from the video on loop. Whatever, I restart the computer like every other time. Apple is ****, nothing new. This time around, upon restart, I get "There is a problem with the Office database. To use the database, you must rebuild it using the Database Utility."
Sure, okay, Rebuild it. Microsoft Database Utility opens with Step 1 of 5: Scanning... "Your identity is older than this version of Outlook. Please rebuild by using the last version of Outlook that used this identity." This confused me, as I probably opened Outlook once... by accident. Then immediately closed it. I don't even know what it does, probably nothing worth my time. I tried looking online saying to update this, install that, but it seems I need to solve world hunger and balance the deficit before I fulfill whatever requirement Microsoft is riddling me to do.
I have Office 14.6.0 (Office for Mac 2011) and all other Office apps work fine. Outlook, however, brings me to this little window asking me "How I would like to get started?" I swiftly flip my computer the finger as I force quit out, because there is no other option to leave the application. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint all work perfectly. If it was up to me, I would completely ignore all this rubbish, but that "There is a problem with the Office Database." Keeps re-popping on my screen and is always on top of any other application.
I really want this little window to go away. I already spent 2 hours reading unhelpful info from this site, maybe cause some other blokes had this issue 4 years ago. And I spent another 2 hours by myself trying to understand the hieroglyphics that is Microsoft's sod accessibility. Any help would be great, because my sarcasm and frustration has reached the daily dose for today.
I understand that Outlook 2011 for the Mac does not support the standard Exchange push method, so it has an automatically set up scheduler to do a "Send and Receive All." However, in my case, this scheduler does not appear to be working, even though it *says* that it has run (Tools-->Run Schedule-->Edit Schedules). New emails do not arrive unless I manually click on the Send and Receive button in the tool bar. I have tried rebuilding my profile, re-installing Outlook, clearing cache and resyncing, but nothing has worked.
Also, I have read that # of messages in a folder can be part of the problem but my inbox right now has 6 emails in it so I don't think that's the problem.
Thanks,
Tim
Receiving the following repeating Gmail error message during every Outlook session: [ALERT] Message too large. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6584#limit
I contacted Google/gmail and was told the issue is with Outlook.
Another Mac user posed a similar question on this forum. I followed the advice recommended to fix their problem: select Window on the main menu bar then select Progress. My Progress list is empty so I'm unable to find the offending large message to delete it. Thanks in advance!
Events in calendar all of sudden disappeared.. It has been working just fine until 2 days ago.
I sent out a few meeting requests and received response from people I invited but the meeting/event is not in my calendar.
When I open "my day" under tool, i could see my meetings..
Can anyone help?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nnmdhutrcz36xo/Screenshot%202016-01-21%2016.36.59.png?dl=0 screenshot for reference.
Thank you!
I can not clear my inbox notification it says I have 2 unread messages and I don't
Would love to clear this as it is just a pain and no one seems to have any answers just by Googling it.
Thanks
TC
Outlook 14.6.0 seems to have provoked major identity/database issues in Outlook 2011. At the first crash I was able to rebuild the database with the then running Main Identity. Since then this method has failed following new crashes. I have followed the forum advice on how to build a new identity and copy across the relevant Data files/folders but this is not working. I get consistent -18000 errors. My data folder is around 17GB and I have around 48GB of space on this Macbook (running Yosemite). Any ideas?
Also - I have a recent backup on Time Machine (5 days old) which I will use if I have to, but I would like to have advice from this forum as to how best to proceed to avoid issues.
Q: is it best to wind back to a previous version of Office 2011?
Many thanks
Alan
Boot up mac, (macbook pro 2011 yosemite 10.5.5) and all will works fine.
At some variable time, up to a couple of hours later, the network traffic stops, when I look at any of the following Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint they have stopped responding, close them down and 30 seconds later the network connection works again.
All other apps during this process work fine other than they lose networking connectivity.
Anyone any thoughts?
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