This error message “cannot create file” in outlook 2010 has given me pain for quiet a while now. During my searching in Google I came across the solution from Microsoft at the following link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305982.
I guess there are two solutions for the issues which are detailed as follow. The common ground for both solutions is opening the registry and looking up for the outlook temp folder path where is saves attachments as a security measure.
The reason I am reading in plenty of other forums and Microsoft tech net website is that outlook throws an error if rename count of the file reaches 99. I hope this will be fixed in future releases of Microsoft outlook.
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