[dba-Tech] Odd Outlook behaviour

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 18:51:20 CDT 2009


Weird!  Some kind of buffer overload thing that uses the text file
because it doesn't have space in memory. That kind of thing was
supposed to have gone away after Windows 95 or so wasn't it?  ;-)

Glad you figured it out Andy. Once again perseverance pays off.

GK

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Andy Lacey <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
> Found a forum entry which said a guy had had this and it had gone after a
> reboot. Just rebooted and sure emough it's stopped. Heaven knows why it
> occurs but a reboot's the answer.
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
> Sent: 16 April 2009 14:30
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Odd Outlook behaviour
>
>
> Andy, I don't know what the problem is, but I get them occasionally too, and
>
> I'm using OE. Almost all of Rocky's are like that.
>
> Susan H.
>
>
>> Anyone any ideas on this? Since a point during last Sunday a lot of my
>> emails are showing in Outlook with a txt attachment which holds a repeat
>> of
>> the message. The filename is the subject of the email. I've spoken to my
>> ISP
>> and they swear they're not generating the attachments so it must be
>> Outlook.
>> It doesn't happen on all emails and I think it's just plain text ones that
>> are affected. All of my AccessD ones show like this. I'm using Outlook
>> 2002.
>> I'm not aware of having altered my settings and I can't even see one which
>> would cause this. Anyone any ideas?
>
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