{"id":296,"date":"2009-06-24T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-03-09T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:19:52","slug":"outlook-2007-cannot-create-file-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2009\/06\/outlook-2007-cannot-create-file-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook 2007 Cannot Create File Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a user complain that they could not open attachments via Outlook anymore.  The system they are using is a Windows XP Pro SP3 system with Office 2007 installed.  Their workaround was to save the document to their My Documents folder (or desktop) and then open that way.  I wonder why they complained&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the exact error:<br \/>\nCannot create file: (filename).  Right-click the folder you want to create the file in, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu to check your permissions for the folder.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/unabletoopenfolders1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/unabletoopenfolders-300x43.png\" alt=\"unabletoopenfolders\" title=\"unabletoopenfolders\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/unabletoopenfolders-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/unabletoopenfolders.png 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the fix:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Navigate to C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAME\\Local Settings\\Temporary Internet Files\\Content.Outlook\\<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll find a randomly name generated folder in here.  In my case it&#8217;s MI2MU5YB.  Open this folder.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll now find a bunch of files &#8211; all of which you&#8217;ve opened as attachments before.<br \/>\nSelect All<br \/>\nDelete<br \/>\nRetry to open your attachment<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>***EDIT*** 03.08.2011<br \/>\nI just had a user with this error: Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error.  The same fix above applies in this case.  User on XP, office 2007.<\/p>\n<p>And the location on Vista\/7 for temporary internet files:<br \/>\nc:\\users\\YOURUSER\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Temporary Internet Files\\<\/p>\n<p>AND you can just open up Internet Explorer, go to Tools \/ Internet Options<br \/>\nThen click the Delete&#8230; button.  I generally only select Preserve Favorites Website Data and Temporary Internet Files.  But that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a user complain that they could not open attachments via Outlook anymore. The system they are using is a Windows XP Pro SP3 system with Office 2007 installed. Their workaround was to save the document to their My Documents folder (or desktop) and then open that way. I wonder why they complained&#8230; Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2009\/06\/outlook-2007-cannot-create-file-error\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outlook 2007 Cannot Create File Error<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}