Corruption in Outlook Folders when using MAPI protocol

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to synchronize with Outlook from another application. It's all working very well except that when leaving my application, this seems to cause a corruption in Outlook.

Indeed, when trying to open a folder, I get the following message:
Unable to display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook could not access the specified folder location. Another application closed unexpectedly while using your Personal Folders file 'C:\Documents and Settings\ABCDE\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlookimap.blablabla.com-00000004.pst'. To prevent potential damage to your Personal Folders file, it will not be available until you close all applications currently using it.

I think something's wrong with the way I'm dealing with the MAPI protocol, probably forgetting to close or release something. But since I do lot of things with it (actually, somebody did, and now i'm trying to understand what it is ;-) ), it will be helpful if someone can point out where could be the possible problem.

What the application is doing basically is retrieving the contacts from a MAPI store which contains the highest count of contacts.

I know I do not give lot of details here, but that's because I have to dig also by myself to understand the things that are done... But if someone can already give me a place to look, this would be nice ;-)

I will try to edit this post, when I retrieve more information...

TY

Baptiste

Answer 1

Baptiste,

This forum handles issues related to the Open Specifications Protocol Documentation located here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc203350.aspx. You can find more information about the Open Specifications program here: http://www.microsoft.com/protocols/default.mspx. It appears your issue is not related to the documentation. You may want to try the General Discussions forum regarding Exchange Server at this location: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrgeneral/threads.

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer