MS Outlook, removing mailbox from folder list?
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A friend uses Outlook 2003 for email and he managed to delete his .PST folder.
Luckily he had a backup of the file and someone showed him how to import it into a new Personal Folder. So his mail is working again now.
However, he now still has a reference to the old PST in the form of an entry in the Outlook Folder List but if you click on it at all (to try and delete it) it throws up an error saying the .PST file that it references doesn't exists, which is correct. Can't seem to find out where Outlook stores it's list of folders to manually delte the reference to the old PST and you certainly can't delete it from within Outlook that I can see.
Please help, it's making me cry. All I can think to tell him is get a Mac.
Luckily he had a backup of the file and someone showed him how to import it into a new Personal Folder. So his mail is working again now.
However, he now still has a reference to the old PST in the form of an entry in the Outlook Folder List but if you click on it at all (to try and delete it) it throws up an error saying the .PST file that it references doesn't exists, which is correct. Can't seem to find out where Outlook stores it's list of folders to manually delte the reference to the old PST and you certainly can't delete it from within Outlook that I can see.
Please help, it's making me cry. All I can think to tell him is get a Mac.
malman said:
try right click close personal folder. If not then tools accounts -> outlook data file and remove from in there
If you try to right-click the personal folder you get the error I described above.If you go tools->accounts->outlook data, the folder doesn't appear in the list of data sources.
Weird huh?
CommanderJameson said:
Stick a copy of any old .PST file in the location that Outlook would like to find the folders you want to remove, then do the right-click and close as above.
The catch there is that he used to have the PST file on an external drive, buried in a path that he can't remember. So how do you know where Outlook is expecting to find the PST file?His new PST file is in the usual place (Docs&Settings/Name/.../Microsoft/Outlook etc. or whatever it is).
The Dude said:
CommanderJameson said:
Stick a copy of any old .PST file in the location that Outlook would like to find the folders you want to remove, then do the right-click and close as above.
The catch there is that he used to have the PST file on an external drive, buried in a path that he can't remember. So how do you know where Outlook is expecting to find the PST file?His new PST file is in the usual place (Docs&Settings/Name/.../Microsoft/Outlook etc. or whatever it is).
The Dude said:
CommanderJameson said:
Stick a copy of any old .PST file in the location that Outlook would like to find the folders you want to remove, then do the right-click and close as above.
The catch there is that he used to have the PST file on an external drive, buried in a path that he can't remember. So how do you know where Outlook is expecting to find the PST file?His new PST file is in the usual place (Docs&Settings/Name/.../Microsoft/Outlook etc. or whatever it is).
CommanderJameson said:
The Dude said:
CommanderJameson said:
Stick a copy of any old .PST file in the location that Outlook would like to find the folders you want to remove, then do the right-click and close as above.
The catch there is that he used to have the PST file on an external drive, buried in a path that he can't remember. So how do you know where Outlook is expecting to find the PST file?His new PST file is in the usual place (Docs&Settings/Name/.../Microsoft/Outlook etc. or whatever it is).
The Dude said:
CommanderJameson said:
The Dude said:
CommanderJameson said:
Stick a copy of any old .PST file in the location that Outlook would like to find the folders you want to remove, then do the right-click and close as above.
The catch there is that he used to have the PST file on an external drive, buried in a path that he can't remember. So how do you know where Outlook is expecting to find the PST file?His new PST file is in the usual place (Docs&Settings/Name/.../Microsoft/Outlook etc. or whatever it is).
CommanderJameson said:
The Dude said:
CommanderJameson said:
The Dude said:
CommanderJameson said:
Stick a copy of any old .PST file in the location that Outlook would like to find the folders you want to remove, then do the right-click and close as above.
The catch there is that he used to have the PST file on an external drive, buried in a path that he can't remember. So how do you know where Outlook is expecting to find the PST file?His new PST file is in the usual place (Docs&Settings/Name/.../Microsoft/Outlook etc. or whatever it is).
It clearly has a list of PST files stored somewhere in Outlook settings or perhaps in his mail profile but I've no idea where abouts.
Its probably easier just to create a new profile but if you don't want to then try this
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/ghosts.htm
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/ghosts.htm
malman said:
Its probably easier just to create a new profile but if you don't want to then try this
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/ghosts.htm
Well done that man!http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/ghosts.htm
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