Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The operation has failed.
As the de-facto IT admin in a small business, this message haunts my dreams and I hate that I know it by heart. Time to make a new mail profile and configure all the accounts again. Its not like itās the seventh time on this computer. Itās not like Iāve reinstalled Outlook three times already as per Microsoftās āaccepted solutionā.
Thereās a reason I donāt use Microsoft software on my hardware.
One time, when I had to use outlook, someone called me asking why I wasnāt replying to emails since like 3 days. Turned out Outlook had decided I could receive emails, but when I was replying, the email would put in a special folder āto be sentā or something, because the MS outgoing server was not working. I looked like a fucking imbecile when I figured it out and tried to explain what happened.
Another fucking stupid outlook thing is that you can only schedule send emails from the Web client, not the desktop app. If you try to do it on the desktop app it sits locally in your outbox and only sends if the PC holding the email is on. And if itās off when the scheduled time passes, the email just sits in the outbox. So incredibly stupid.
My current employer doesnāt use Outlook, but Iāve worked for several in the past that do, and Iām pretty sure Iāve seen all of those messages at some point.
