Duplicate Personal Folders

[Guest]

I have two instances of "My Personal Folders" in my Outlook 2003. I am not
sure how it got there. But, when I first installed it, I somehow ended up
with two instances of it in my folders list. They have the same exact
information. E-mail folder is exactly the same as the other "My Personal
Folders." And when I say that I have two instances of "My Personal Folders,"
I do mean two instances. Even the name is exactly the same.

How can I eliminate one of the instances to clean up the appearance and
simplify my contact search for e-mails and such? It is just kind of annoying
to see in my "Calendars" folder a "Calendar" and a "Calendar in My Personal
Folder." Both calendars are exactly the same. Help? Anyone?

Jason

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you read any of the posts here? Few have been answered more frequently
than this one. You have a corrupt profile. Create a new one.

 

[Guest]

I did an initial search for what I was looking for. But it pulled up so many
results that most were not relevant from the large list that was there for
what I was looking for.

When you say that the file is corrupted, does that mean that I need to erase
the original PST and start from scratch? Or re-assign Outlook to search for
a new PST?

Rattler

Did you read any of the posts here? Few have been answered more frequently
than this one. You have a corrupt profile. Create a new one.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I have two instances of "My Personal Folders" in my Outlook 2003. I am not
sure how it got there. But, when I first installed it, I somehow ended up
with two instances of it in my folders list. They have the same exact
information. E-mail folder is exactly the same as the other "My Personal
Folders." And when I say that I have two instances of "My Personal
Folders,"
I do mean two instances. Even the name is exactly the same.

How can I eliminate one of the instances to clean up the appearance and
simplify my contact search for e-mails and such? It is just kind of
annoying
to see in my "Calendars" folder a "Calendar" and a "Calendar in My
Personal
Folder." Both calendars are exactly the same. Help? Anyone?

Jason

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The first step is simply to see if you can R click and close the duplicate
set of folders. If you can't, then you have a corrupt profile from having
migrated your data file incorrectly. Create a new profile and set it to use
your current PST file rather than the new one the new profile creates.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Product=out2003

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I did an initial search for what I was looking for. But it pulled up so
many
results that most were not relevant from the large list that was there for
what I was looking for.

When you say that the file is corrupted, does that mean that I need to
erase
the original PST and start from scratch? Or re-assign Outlook to search
for
a new PST?

Rattler

Did you read any of the posts here? Few have been answered more
frequently
than this one. You have a corrupt profile. Create a new one.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I have two instances of "My Personal Folders" in my Outlook 2003. I am
not
sure how it got there. But, when I first installed it, I somehow ended
up
with two instances of it in my folders list. They have the same exact
information. E-mail folder is exactly the same as the other "My
Personal
Folders." And when I say that I have two instances of "My Personal
Folders,"
I do mean two instances. Even the name is exactly the same.

How can I eliminate one of the instances to clean up the appearance and
simplify my contact search for e-mails and such? It is just kind of
annoying
to see in my "Calendars" folder a "Calendar" and a "Calendar in My
Personal
Folder." Both calendars are exactly the same. Help? Anyone?

Jason