Comments on: Official performance patch for Outlook 2007

By: DaHai

DaHai — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:43:27 +0000

Tim ( and others):for solving the “data file not closed properly”issue, be a bad Windows user and never close Outlook. Just turn Windows off and let it solve the problem. It worked perfectly for me. Good luck

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:08:05 +0000

Has there been any other progress on this issue?

Not that I know of. There will be an Office 2007 service pack at some point, might help, might not.

I’m mystified as to why 900 contacts would make a difference. Can you verify this 100%?

Tim

By: GK

GK — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:12:59 +0000

I’m not sure if anyone is still reading this blog. I have had a lot of the same problems that are listed above. I systematically added and took away things from my default outlook data file and I have found this:

Outlook 2007 slows to a crawl (at least for me) ONLY when I import my CONTACTS and only when these start to number in the hundreds. I had 900 contacts and Outlook was essentially disabled. I reduced it to about 200 and things were much better.

If you delete ALL your contacts, Outlook works great. All you have to do is import your contacts into a separate folder and you can still use them, all 900!

I hate Outlook 2007. This “fix” of mine is going to make contacts synchronization with my PDA a real problem.

Has there been any other progress on this issue?

By: ccaudill

ccaudill — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:40:41 +0000

I also get the error when opening Outlook 2007- “data file did not close properly”….and that it is the archive folder having the problem. But the problem I am having now is that when the error message goes away the program shuts down. I have gone to add and remove programs and performed a repair, but nothing I am doing is allowing me to keep outlook open past the error message. Any patches out there?

By: KJJ

KJJ — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:44:17 +0000

The easy answer may be to use X1 to archive .pst files. I have two separate .pst files thats both contains files more than ten years old. I can get to any message within 10 seconds via a single interface: X1. I do no searching in Outlook whatever.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:40:08 +0000

Did you ever find a solution to the “date file ‘Mailbox…’ was not closed properly” – error? I get that DAILY! Ughhh!

I think you always get this if the indexing is not complete – which takes ages for a large mailbox. It’s especially a problem on laptops. Indexing is designed to run when the computer is not busy doing other tasks; but in this state laptops tend to put themselves to sleep – no indexing.

Tim

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:55:30 +0000

Did you ever find a solution to the “date file ‘Mailbox…’ was not closed properly” – error? I get that DAILY! Ughhh!

By: JohnK

JohnK — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:58:43 +0000

My main gripe about Outlook 2007 is the painfully slow (and CPU-intensive) rendering of incoming HTML-emails. By comparison, Outlook 2003 was fine.

HTML emails take forever to appear (whether in the reading pane or when “opened”). And bizarrely, some newsletters that rendered perfectly in Outlook 2003 are badly broken in Outlook 2007. Some HTML emails lock Outlook 2007 at 100% CPU usage.

I did read somewhere that Outlook 2007 dropped the IE HTML engine in favour of the Word HTML engine. Could this be a cause? Whatever it is, it makes Outlook 2007 close to unusable.

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:51:41 +0000

I’m switching to Thunderbird 2.0. The email archives are searched by google desktop search. I take objection to Arnold’s comment that the email program is not meant to be a file dump. The fact is, many of us need to archive and search email, particularly when these days email is used for much business correspondence. So, Microsoft, please design an email program that can be used as a file dump.