What causes the “we couldn’t create the outlook data file” error?
The things that can cause this issue are listed below
Note
Make sure you have allowed Outlook from your email provider side as well. Outlook and various other email clients need proper permissions before they add your email account. You can go to your Sign in & security options from Gmail settings and select App passwords. Now select the appropriate options like your device etc. This option will give you a 16 digit code which should be entered as the password.
Method 1: Use Manage Profiles
Since the problem is most likely caused by a bug in the Microsoft Outlook that prevents you from adding an account via the Add Account option, you can try using the alternative way of adding the account. You can successfully add a new email account via Outlook’s manage profiles window. So, follow the steps given below to add a new account through the manage profiles process. Now, select the appropriate options and add in your email account from here. Everything should work fine once you are done.
Method 2: Using Mail Option (Alternation to Method 1)
This is an alternative option of the method 1. If for some reason, you don’t want to use Outlook to add the email account then you can use the Mail option from the Control Panel as well. This option will get you to step 5 of method 1 and from there the steps are the same. Now, select the appropriate options and add in your email account from here. That’s it.
Method 3: Disable Simplified Account Creation
If you are trying to add your account via “Connect Outlook to Office 365” wizard in Outlook 2016 then the issue might be caused by that. The account creation process using the Connect Outlook to Office 365 wizard is known as the simplified account creation. Disabling this simplified account creation will replace it with the regular account creation wizard which might solve the issue. We can easily disable the Simplified Account Creation via the Registry editor. Follow the steps given below 4. Locate and click setup from the left pane 5. Right click on an empty space from the right pane, select New then select DWORD (32-bit) Value Close the registry editor and try to add the account again.
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