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Outlook does not appear to work properly in Panther on a G5.

It works on a G4, It works on a G5 in 10.2.8.

As soon as I updated to 10.3 my outlook would no longer communicate with the server. If I trash the prefs, outlook won't recreate them.

I did a permissions check and Disk First Aid, No go.

Any ideas?

I say somebody on the Apple Discussions board with the same exact issue so I already know I'm not the only one.

Thanks in advance.

[hashboy0519]

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You can work around this by creating a read/write disk image and copying outlook to that, or running it off another partition/volume. Apple and Microsoft have no explination as to why this is happening but are looking into it. As for me it didn't occur on the drive I installed it on, it happened after imaging that drive and then restoring it to a new drive. The reason that it will run off a seperate partion or mounted disk image makes the problem even stranger. I will keep you posted on any other solutions I come up with.

Rob

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That worked for me.

Another added piece of info:

A co-worker was having the same issue. He drug Outlook to the external drive and it worked. Then he drug it to the internal drive and it worked there too.

This didn't work for me. The only difference I can think of is, his external drive has a bootable 10.2 on it.

Thanks again for your help.

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Would like to know if there has been a good fix for this yet.

It appears to work on a clean install but not an upgrade.

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For those having this problem...

I did these things and fixed the issue and can now run MS Outlook 2001 on my boot drive.

One of these two things fixed the problem:

1) renamed the computer in the sharing system preference

2) Did an archive and install with the save users option checked. Then restarted and deleted the previous system folder.

Unfortenatly I didn't test between the two tries and don't feel like causing the problem again to see which fixed it.