Why I can't open OFT files anymore Lance 12/9/2008 11:18:01 AM We use outlook as a database and on the network we export contact as OFT to save them on a general computer, but we can't anymore! Why is Microsoft always create mess with every update, it was working fine before! Anyone has an idea how i can get it to work again. Remove SP3? Thanks

Re: Why I can't open OFT files anymore "Raul" <v_2rath[ at ]hotmail.com> 12/10/2008 3:37:37 AM This was an intentional design change with SP 3 for Outlook ,there a registry setting to revert it back to the SP 2 behavior -- Regards Rahul Thomas [MSFT] "Lance" <lkreappr[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:2576C7BF-D44F-45C7-BEB4-B4229031BCF8[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > We use outlook as a database and on the network we export contact as OFT > to > save them on a general computer, but we can't anymore! Why is Microsoft > always create mess with every update, it was working fine before! Anyone > has > an idea how i can get it to work again. Remove SP3? > > Thanks

Re: Why I can't open OFT files anymore Lance 12/10/2008 9:24:00 AM I removed SP3 and it's back to normal now, will avoid major update in the future in case of any "Intentional design change" that cause problem to work! "Raul" wrote: [Quoted Text] > This was an intentional design change with SP 3 for Outlook ,there a > registry setting to revert it back to the SP 2 behavior > > -- > Regards > > Rahul Thomas [MSFT] > > "Lance" <lkreappr[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:2576C7BF-D44F-45C7-BEB4-B4229031BCF8[ at ]microsoft.com... > > We use outlook as a database and on the network we export contact as OFT > > to > > save them on a general computer, but we can't anymore! Why is Microsoft > > always create mess with every update, it was working fine before! Anyone > > has > > an idea how i can get it to work again. Remove SP3? > > > > Thanks > >