OL: How to Delete and Re-create a Calendar Folder (318656)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Outlook 2000
- Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
This article was previously published under Q318656 SUMMARY
If the Calendar folder has become corrupted and unusable, you may need to delete and re-create the Calendar folder. This article describes how an Exchange Administrator can back up the Calendar data to a personal folders (.pst) file, and then delete and re-create the Calendar folder.
How to Delete and Re-create a Calendar
To delete and re-create a calendar, follow these steps:
- On a computer that has a profile created for the user, create a folder named MDBVU, and then copy the following files from the Support\Utils\I386 folder that are located on the Microsoft Exchange Server compact disc:
Mdbvu32.exe
PropVu32.dll
StatVu32.dll
TblVu32.dll
XvPort.dll
- Back up all of your Microsoft Outlook folders to a .pst file. For additional information about how to back up Outlook folders, click the article numbers below
to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
195782 OL2000: Working with Personal Folders
196492 OL2000: (IMO) How to Back Up, Restore, or Move Outlook Data
195719 OL2000: (CW) How to Back Up, Restore, or Move Outlook Data
- Exit Outlook if it is running.
- Open the MDBVU folder, and then double-click Mdbvu32.exe to start the program.
- In the MAPILogonEx dialog box, click OK.
- Click the profile that you want to configure, and then click OK if you receive the prompt for a profile selection.
- The MDB Viewer Test Application dialog box appears.
- On the MDB menu, click OpenMessageStore.
- From the list of message stores, click Mailbox - user's friendly name, and then click Open.
- On the MDB menu, click Open Root Folder. A new dialog box that contains three columns appears.
- In the Child Folders column, double-click Top of Information Store.
- In the Child Folders column, double-click Calendar.
- Select all items in the Messages in Folder column.
- In the Operations Available drop-down menu, click LpFld > DeleteMessages
- Click Call Function, and then click OK.
- Click Close.
- In the Child Folders column, click Calendar.
- In the Operations Available drop-down menu, click IpFld->DeleteFolder, and then click the Call Function button.
- Click OK.
- In the MAPI_FOLDER - Top Of Information Store dialog box, click Close.
- In the MAPI_FOLDER - Root dialog box, click Close.
- On the MDB menu, click Store Logoff, and then click OK in the IpMDB- >StoreLogoff() dialog box.
- On the Session menu, click Session Logoff.
- On the Session menu, click Exit to close the Mdbvu32 file.
- Start Outlook with the outlook.exe /resetfolders switch to rebuild the calendar. For example, click Start, click Run, in the Open box, type the following
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /resetfolders
and then press ENTER.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 1/7/2006 |
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Keywords: | kbhowto KB318656 |
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