Hi Jim,


You can use TRY...ENDTRY to catch and ignore the error. See corrections in your code below.

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>This is a minor thing I'm working on, but I have users on my network that leave outlook open and mess up my backup of their pst files located on a network share. I wanted to make a small exe that could be put in the scheduled tasks on each workstation, just before the backup time would close outlook, if it is running.
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>This works when there's an existing instance of outlook running. It dies when there is not one. Is there a way to determine if the program is running or not?
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>Public oOutLook, cVarType,oNameSpace,oInBox
>_screen.Visible = .F.
TRY
>oOutLook = Getobject(,"Outlook.Application")
>If Vartype(oOutLook) == 'O'
>	oNameSpace = oOutLook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
>	oInBox = oNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(6)	&& 10 = contacts, 6 = inbox, 5 = sent items
>	oInbox.Display()
>	oOutLook.Quit()
>	Release oOutLook
>Endif
CATCH
ENDTRY
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