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Thanks. &nbsp;We're processing in real-time - up to 3.5k of these are read in order to produce a report - but the timer trick is a really good one for background processing. &nbsp;It's not the answer to our problem, worse luck :-(.<br />
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I'll certainly look into rules. &nbsp;We're seeing different behaviour on different client machines, and that could explain it.
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Thanks.  We're processing in real-time - up to 3.5k of these are read in order to produce a report - but the timer trick is a really good one for background processing.  It's not the answer to our problem, worse luck :-(.

I'll certainly look into rules.  We're seeing different behaviour on different client machines, and that could explain it.

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set a task to clean out the outlook temp directory periodically.. that may solve your issue.. the outlook temp directory tends to build up files and slow down the process
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set a task to clean out the outlook temp directory periodically.. that may solve your issue.. the outlook temp directory tends to build up files and slow down the process

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We're using XML attachments to represent extra data in a custom application (it's a little too irregular, and too large, to use fields for the job). &nbsp;On occasion, Outlook appears to be unable to save the attachment, but fails silently instead of returning an error. &nbsp;It appears to be more common under heavy load - for example, try processing 200 such items in a loop using Outlook's objetct model.<br />
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Has anyone else ever seen this behaviour? &nbsp;Any suggestions?<br />
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- Peter<br />
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Peter Crowther, Director, Melandra Limited
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We're using XML attachments to represent extra data in a custom application (it's a little too irregular, and too large, to use fields for the job).  On occasion, Outlook appears to be unable to save the attachment, but fails silently instead of returning an error.  It appears to be more common under heavy load - for example, try processing 200 such items in a loop using Outlook's objetct model.

Has anyone else ever seen this behaviour?  Any suggestions?

- Peter
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Peter Crowther, Director, Melandra Limited

Outlook XP sometimes fails to save attachments using the Outlook object model

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.