Outlook 2007 Hangs While Updating the Inbox
Hello everyone,
On Monday, one of my users sent an extremely large email >50M. It hung in the Exchange queue and yesterday I deleted the email from the queue. I also had to delete a very large .eml file from the queue folder. Everyone else's email seems to working fine, however, that user's email is now hanging while trying to update the Inbox. From the progress bar, it appears that it gets about 75% complete and then doesn't go any further. No one else seems to be having this problem. I have emptied her deleted items folder and cleared all of the large emails out of the Sent Items folder. I created a profile for her on a different computer and we are still having the same problem.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Susan
On Monday, one of my users sent an extremely large email >50M. It hung in the Exchange queue and yesterday I deleted the email from the queue. I also had to delete a very large .eml file from the queue folder. Everyone else's email seems to working fine, however, that user's email is now hanging while trying to update the Inbox. From the progress bar, it appears that it gets about 75% complete and then doesn't go any further. No one else seems to be having this problem. I have emptied her deleted items folder and cleared all of the large emails out of the Sent Items folder. I created a profile for her on a different computer and we are still having the same problem.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Susan
start > run
outlook /cleanprofile
or
outlook /cleanviews
outlook /cleanprofile
or
outlook /cleanviews
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We are using cached exchange mode. I turned it off and the updating Inbox problem seems to be corrected but now Outlook is running really slow and she keeps getting the Outlook is trying to retrieve data from the Microsoft Exchange Server message on everything she tries to do. I am not getting any error in the Event Log of the Exchange Server and it seems to be running properly.
I am started Outlook in Safe Mode and it did the same thing.
The size of her mailbox is only .5GB so it is definitely not close to the 2GB limit.
I am started Outlook in Safe Mode and it did the same thing.
The size of her mailbox is only .5GB so it is definitely not close to the 2GB limit.
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Can you try creating a new outlook profile - new OST's and then try downloading .5GB of emails ?
Repairing OST - may or may not work.
If it works with a new profile then you can close the case.
Repairing OST - may or may not work.
If it works with a new profile then you can close the case.
ASKER
I did repair the OST file and found errors that were repaired. However, the file would still hang when updating the Inbox.
Since this was the user that sent out the huge email and was the only one having the problem, I suspected that even though she said she deleted the files that there were still some hung up in her mailbox. I connected to her mailbox through OWA. No surprise, Exchange Server sent back a System Undeliverable that was the size of the original email. I permanently deleted this through OWA and now everything is working correctly.
I awarded the points to Spec01 since I did run the repair tool and found errors which may have helped in correcting the problem.
Since this was the user that sent out the huge email and was the only one having the problem, I suspected that even though she said she deleted the files that there were still some hung up in her mailbox. I connected to her mailbox through OWA. No surprise, Exchange Server sent back a System Undeliverable that was the size of the original email. I permanently deleted this through OWA and now everything is working correctly.
I awarded the points to Spec01 since I did run the repair tool and found errors which may have helped in correcting the problem.
ASKER
This did not directly solve the problem but may have contributed to correcting the issue. I did post my solution in the comments. Thank you to everyone for your help.
If this is the case open Outlook in Offline mode and archive current items. Also does this happen if the user accesses their email from OWA?