Drag/drop Outlook email to MLO

[Gordon]

I've noticed some behavior that I'm not sure how to handle:

1. I drag/drop an Outlook email to MLO
2. Some time later I click on the link in MLO and get an error message
3. Yes, I've fixed an earlier problem (registry was pointing to the wrong Outlook executable)
4. If I find the email again and then drag/drop to MLO, the link works - confirming that MLO is still able to follow an Outlook link.

Here's my guess: I'm working on a home machine and a work machine. I'll bet that the Outlook links are going to be different on the two machines - making such links fail if I try to access them on a machine other than the one they were made on. Is that likely to be right? 

If so, there aren't any workarounds that are obvious to me - that is, obviously I could just not use this MLO feature any longer, or I could copy/paste the relevant text to MLO, or do something more complicated like send the email to Onenote or a file (which can have the same paths on the two machines, due to Dropbox) and paste a link to that into MLO. Or am I missing something here?

Gordon

[Elizabeth Lindsay]

Hi Gordon,

 

When you drag and drop an e-mail into MLO, it does two things: (1) put a link to the exact current location of the e-mail and (2) put a copy of the text.  Becuase I like to have my inbox empty, I first move the e-mail to the folder where it will be archived (for example, into the correct project folder) before I create a link.  This way, the link won't break when I move it.  What you might be able to do is synchronize your PST files.  The key will be to ensure both computers have the PST in the same location.

 

Becuase I use MLO at work and at home, I actually have two different MLO files.  One focused on work activities and only on my work computer.  One focused on everything BUT work and lives on my home computer and android phone.  That might also work for you.

 

If you'd like to talk more about it, let me know.

 

Elizabeth

[David J. Mangen]

Gordon, are the install paths for Outlook as well as the folder structure for Outlook identical on the two (work and home) computers?

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[Gordon]

Thanks to both of you! I'm betting the paths to the pst files aren't the same. Will have to check when I next bring my laptop into work - but that sounds like a good bet.

Gordon

[Gordon]

This is very odd. The paths to the Outlook ost files are the same on the two machines, but I'm still having this problem crop up.

Both machines connect to an Exchange server at my university, using cached exchange mode. There are no pst files on either machine. I would have thought that this would mean that the paths to the mail messages would be the same on both machines . . . But evidently they're not. 

I suppose one issue could be the frequency with which Outlook syncs to the server. I just added "automatic send/receive every 30 min" and "send/receive on exit." to the settings. Does anyone have other suggestions -- am I missing something else?

Gordon

[Lisa Stroyan]

Perhaps there is some sort of machine or IP encoding somewhere that is getting in the way. You may be the most expert of us on this now, I'm afraid :)

I suspect you won't get drag-n-drop to work on exchange server emails, but if you convert them to a task in Outlook you might be able to sync them that way. But...you won't have a link there either. Another option might be to forward them to Evernote, and use the web address (platform independent) to link to.

Lisa

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Gordon <gaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sunday, March 3, 2013 4:58:06 PM UTC-5, Gordon wrote:

This is very odd. The paths to the Outlook ost files are the same on the two machines, but I'm still having this problem crop up.

Both machines connect to an Exchange server at my university, using cached exchange mode. There are no pst files on either machine. I would have thought that this would mean that the paths to the mail messages would be the same on both machines . . . But evidently they're not. Lisa Stroyan, mailto: lstr...@gmail.com

[Elizabeth Lindsay]

I wish I knew.  I've been able to have drag-and-drop work on Exchange server e-mails, but I only use one instance of MLO with those links.  I've never tried to have two connect.

On Thursday, March 7, 2013 9:38:00 AM UTC-6, Lisa S wrote:

Perhaps there is some sort of machine or IP encoding somewhere that is getting in the way. You may be the most expert of us on this now, I'm afraid :)

I suspect you won't get drag-n-drop to work on exchange server emails, but if you convert them to a task in Outlook you might be able to sync them that way. But...you won't have a link there either. Another option might be to forward them to Evernote, and use the web address (platform independent) to link to.

Lisa

[faltufox Dubey]

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