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Cannot Create PST File. The File path is too long.

Anonymous
2022-01-19T22:58:48+00:00

I am getting this when i set up a new email in outlook. clearly something wrong as i already added an email with a longer name. how do i fix this?

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Anonymous
2022-02-07T10:35:10+00:00

I rebooted and it worked ok.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-03-23T17:52:12+00:00

    Restart Works!!! Well Done

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T18:36:10+00:00

    tried that but no luck, but then it suddenly started working! I didn't do anything different; very strange...

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-06T19:28:39+00:00

    I have exactly the same issue - trying to (re)create an IMAP account manually..

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-31T11:47:34+00:00

    I'm getting the same error message.

    This is on creating an IMAP/SMTP connection manually.

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