From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: March 9, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: why does opening an attachment in outlook reference A:?
>
> Leo,
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> I just did a wipe of a drive to install in a new box. When I
> installed Outlook 2003, and brought in my old pst, it started
> giving me an error message every time I look at an email that
> has an attachment.
>
> Error is as follows:
>
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>
> Outlook.exe - Drive Not Ready
>
> ========
>
> The drive is not ready for use; its door may be open. Please
> check drive A: and make sure that a disk is inserted and that
> the drive door is closed.
>
> --------
>
> I never saved anything to the A drive on the old system, and
> there is no A drive on this new system.
>
> Any idea on how I can get rid of this error message? I have
> already used the Regedit to set my default attachment path,
> but that had no effect on this problem.
Wow. You get the odd behaviour of the day award :-).
I would look at the TMP or TEMP environment variables. My guess
is that for some reason they are set to something that references
A:
In a command prompt just type "SET" followed by enter and look for
those two.
If they are in error, you can alter them by right clicking on
My Computer, hitting Properties, the Advanced tab and the
Environment settings button. You may need to restart outlook,
or perhaps reboot, if that turned out to be the problem.
Good luck!
Thanks for asking,
Leo