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The system cannot find the file specified

Opening an attachment in OUtlook 2003 get a message "The system cannot find the file specified. If I open Word first and minimise it and try to open the attachment in email works perfectly. Of course the user wants be able to open it in email without opening all the office applications. This only happens when connected through wireless and VPN. It works fine when connected with ethernet connection.

I've tried the following to no avail:

Changed the environment variable to point to c:\temp rather than %userprofile% local settings\temp.
Updated the wireless drivers.

Scottyworld

This can be rectified by deleting the frmcache.dat file from the local profile. File is found at :
c:\documents & settings\%username%\local settings\application data\microsoft\FORMS.
Close down Outlook
Delete the frmcache.dat file
Restart outlook.
Should be fine opening attachments now

mfsupport

im having that same problem also... just did that... and it doesnt work... :s

Natureboy24

"System cannot find specified files" I have the same problem with outlook 2003 but it is intermitten. I do not use OWA. It is not broken completely, the problem is intermittent. Sometimes I must copy it to my desktop, either the document, or at times the entire email message. Other times, I must restart Outlook, etc.

does this serveral times a day. this happens 10 to 12 times over the corse of a week.. Can you help?

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annayeg

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The above solution worked.

foxtechsupport

The above solution did not work.

ebadministrator

I had this same issue with one of our users, I tried all the repairs stated in this post, none of them fixed it, I then went to the Excel Program, (Outlook is where I was opening the files from, but Excel is the program I was having trouble getting the files to open with) and went to the help menu, came down to "Detect and Repair" a message box appears asking the 2 following questions, * Restore my shortcuts while repairing * Discard my customized settings and restore default settings I checked both of these, it took a little time to do its thing, but when it was finished all my files opened as needed, here is the link to the Microsoft page about Detect and Repair... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402411033.aspx

Katie D

WORD NEEDS TO BE RUNNING WHEN OPENING A WORD ATTACHMENT FROM OUTLOOK
Bring up Explorer (or My Computer).
" Click Tools-Folder Options
" Click File Types
" Scroll through the Registered File Types list and find the "DOC (Microsoft Word Document)" file type
" Click Advanced
" Select Open from the list and then click Edit
" Uncheck the "Use DDE" checkbox
" In the box that says "Application used to perform action", delete any parameters after winword.exe
" Type a space at the end of winword.exe then type "%1"
" Click OK until you dismiss all the dialogs
Note: After unchecking the DDE checkbox and clicking OK, when you go back into the dialog, the DDE checkbox is checked again, this does not hurt anything and I have read several things about it getting rechecked.

wgoheen

In 2007 it is under Excel Options/Advanced-Ignore Other Applications that use DDE

Infosec-IT

tools and option config worked for me, thank you!!!