IT help needed with Outlook

[Dave Crampton]

Hi,

I need some help with Outlook. I seem to have lost some folders in my 'Personal Folders' bit. Personal Folders is stored on my C drive and not the server like the inbox etc..

I was moving some mail into the personal folders and one minute a few folders were there, the next they were not shown/missing. Doing a search in Outlook for some of the email contacts shows them but only the folder names and not the tree/location so I can't navigate to them in Outlook/C-drive. I wondered if it is possible to hide certai folders like you can with some files in Explorer, and if I have done this by accident?

It doesn't help that in Outlook all the mail is stored in one massive file and not in a directory structure lke Netscape used to.

Please help!

Thanks,

Dave C

[turbanator]

Originally Posted by Dave Crampton

Hi,

I need some help with Outlook. I seem to have lost some folders in my 'Personal Folders' bit. Personal Folders is stored on my C drive and not the server like the inbox etc..

I was moving some mail into the personal folders and one minute a few folders were there, the next they were not shown/missing. Doing a search in Outlook for some of the email contacts shows them but only the folder names and not the tree/location so I can't navigate to them in Outlook/C-drive. I wondered if it is possible to hide certai folders like you can with some files in Explorer, and if I have done this by accident?

It doesn't help that in Outlook all the mail is stored in one massive file and not in a directory structure lke Netscape used to.

Please help!

Thanks,

Dave C

Hmm, the most common thing I've seen in a situation like this is that you may have dragged/dropped the folders into another folder.

My Dad does this a lot

r
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[Dave Crampton]

Originally Posted by turbanator

Hmm, the most common thing I've seen in a situation like this is that you may have dragged/dropped the folders into another folder.

My Dad does this a lot

r
P

Nah, I've looked for them, and can't find them anywhere.

Thanks Paul,

[CotoChris]

Do a search for '.pst' files.

Make sure that you computer shows 'all files'. Stansard settings don't show certain files including some .pst

Give this a try, hope this will help.

[Gram43]

I lost nearly all my emails over a certain period earlier in the year and had to get a special program tool to enable me to retrieve them, but couldn't retrieve all.

PM me dave with a relevant email address and I'll try and send you a link.
It may work.

Graham

Originally Posted by Dave Crampton

Hi,

I need some help with Outlook. I seem to have lost some folders in my 'Personal Folders' bit. Personal Folders is stored on my C drive and not the server like the inbox etc..

I was moving some mail into the personal folders and one minute a few folders were there, the next they were not shown/missing. Doing a search in Outlook for some of the email contacts shows them but only the folder names and not the tree/location so I can't navigate to them in Outlook/C-drive. I wondered if it is possible to hide certai folders like you can with some files in Explorer, and if I have done this by accident?

It doesn't help that in Outlook all the mail is stored in one massive file and not in a directory structure lke Netscape used to.

Please help!

Thanks,

Dave C

[Dave Crampton]

When I search for the emails in the missing directories I can find them but the search pane only shows the mail directory and not its location so I can't see if its been moved. Plus when I tried to create a new directory with the same name I received an error message saying that the folder already exists.

Is there any way i could have changed the folders to become hidden?

[Gram43]

Originally Posted by Dave Crampton

When I search for the emails in the missing directories I can find them but the search pane only shows the mail directory and not its location so I can't see if its been moved. Plus when I tried to create a new directory with the same name I received an error message saying that the folder already exists.

Is there any way i could have changed the folders to become hidden?

Dave, have sent you the files as promised, hope they work. Let me know if you receive OK.

Graham

[Dave Crampton]

Well, I blame a program called Citrix, used to logon to Unix/Linus machines remotely from a PC.

I doesn't get along with Outlook and they usually have hissy fits and stop working when they are both started at the same time. Well Citrix died today when I was doing some email admin - moving mail into folders etc.. thats when the missing folders thing started. Now I have just had to start Citrix again to recover my old session and once I'd closed it down - properly this time - and started Outlook, Kell Surpise The missing folders are back ????

How confused but relieved am I?

Dave C

[Finless]

If you right click on any part of the "tree" inc the very top "Outlook Today" folder you can change some options there but I don't see that happening by accident?

[Gram43]

Originally Posted by Dave Crampton

Well, I blame a program called Citrix, used to logon to Unix/Linus machines remotely from a PC.

I doesn't get along with Outlook and they usually have hissy fits and stop working when they are both started at the same time. Well Citrix died today when I was doing some email admin - moving mail into folders etc.. thats when the missing folders thing started. Now I have just had to start Citrix again to recover my old session and once I'd closed it down - properly this time - and started Outlook, Kell Surpise The missing folders are back ????

How confused but relieved am I?

Dave C

Brill, well if you get my messages just bin em'.