Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Outlook "Can't create the item"

So you click on a mailto link to create a piece of mail within an Outlook message pane and you get "Can't create the item". I don't know why it's a problem but its a bad FRMCACHE.DAT file.

Close Outlook. Go to Windows\Profiles\username\LocalSettings\Application Data\Microsoft\Forms to find it, assuming you have already set Explorer to show Hidden Files and Folders. Delete it. Problem solved.

Here is the link to MS kb: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;267807

So far I've encountered it only on Win2000 with Office 2003. Let me know if you find a pattern.

1 comment:

  1. Could you please provide the "Unified Messaging" product? I work with several and if I haven't come across it, it might eventually be helpful.

    Thanks!

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