That was too easy, Sergey. :) That's what I get for thinking too hard, sometimes.

Thanks,

Jim

>Hi Jim,
>
>
>You can use TRY...ENDTRY to catch and ignore the error. See corrections in your code below.
>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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?
>>
>>

>>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
>>