Outlook 2013 just refuses to work

[Horrgakx]

Hi - I'm at my whits end with this so far, my Outlook just won't work.
This is the error message I'm getting; "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The of folders cannot be opened. The operation failed".

I have tried the following;
- Running outlook.exe /resetnavpane
- I have ran the SCANPST.EXE program.
- I have also COMPLETELY uninstalled Office (using REVO Uninstaller, which removes registry entries also) and reinstalled it.

What happens now, after a fresh install, is that Outlook just will not open. It's looking for a PST file, and if I point it to any of the 3x PST files I had before this issue it gives the error as above. So why should a clean install not have a PST file?

Please help, this is a real headache!!

PC SPec;
Windows Professional 10 64Bit
Intel i7-5820K Haswell-E (3.30GHZ, 15MB L3 CACHE)
Nvidia GTX 980 4GB Extreme
MSI X99S SLI Plus Motherboard
32GB Crucial (4 x 8GB) 2133Mhz DDR4

 

[Lutfij]

Since this sounds like a corruption of your Outlook Personal Folder, have a go with this tutorial and consequently this troubleshooting list and see if the issue is resolved.

* Narrowed down this tutorial from the second link above to help you out.

 

[Horrgakx]

Oddly, the answer lay in creating a new mailbox (ie. a new PST file), then importing the old PST's. This method worked fine, so I deleted the new 'blank' one and it's all good so far.