How do I find a misplaced folder in Outlook 2007?

[vickiv]

All the folders are expanded and it is not in any of them. I accidentally
drug the folder onto the blue space at the top of the screen and it
disappeared. Outlook 2007 - Vista.

Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You need to right click on the root of your mailbox store and use Advanced
Find to look for mail items.

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After furious head scratching, vickiv asked:

| All the folders are expanded and it is not in any of them. I
| accidentally drug the folder onto the blue space at the top of the
| screen and it disappeared. Outlook 2007 - Vista.
|
| Thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

All the folders are expanded and it is not in any of them. I accidentally
drug the folder onto the blue space at the top of the screen and it
disappeared. Outlook 2007 - Vista.

See if this helps: http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/mailoutlooktoday.htm

 

[vickiv]

Hi - I tried yours and Milly's suggestions. Unfortunately neither worked.
Maybe when I quit dragging the folder in the blue area it somehow moved out
of Outlook?

Thank you both for your suggestions.

Vicki

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Hi - I tried yours and Milly's suggestions. Unfortunately neither worked.
Maybe when I quit dragging the folder in the blue area it somehow moved
out
of Outlook?

You can't drag a folder out of Outlook. Outlook folders aren't file system
objects. Perhaps you dragged it to another folder and it is now a subfolder
of some other folder, but Advanced FInd, as Milly said, should be able to
locate it if you can recall an item that was in the moved folder.

I don't understand what you mean by "blue area".

 

[vickiv]

Brian,
Thanks again for continuing to respond to me. I didn't think it would be
possible to move the folder out of Outlook either. The :blue area" I am
talking about is the area at the top of the screen (when I am looking at
mail/unread mail) where there are no icons or toolbars, like just left of the
help space (which is on the upper right of my screen). I've checked every
folder in Outlook manually to see if the folder is in another one (it's not),
used advanced search (no luck), made sure there are no hidden outlook files -
I just don't know where it could have gone!

Vicki

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Thanks again for continuing to respond to me. I didn't think it would be
possible to move the folder out of Outlook either. The :blue area" I am
talking about is the area at the top of the screen (when I am looking at
mail/unread mail) where there are no icons or toolbars, like just left of
the
help space (which is on the upper right of my screen).

If you're speaking of the empty area of Outlook's Menu and Tool bar space,
as far as I can tell, you can't drag a folder there. I can't at any rate.
Outlook doesn't allow it. Sorry, but I can't reconstruct what you may have
done well enough to suggest a solution.

 

[vickiv]

Ok - that was my thought too - reconstruct what I had done - so I made a test
folder and drug it all around the top area. You're right, it would not let me
move it to the blue area. However, I lost the test folder somewhere between
the "unread mail" headline and "arrange by: folder". Now I can't find the
test folder anywhere either. I tried all the previous recommendations just to
make sure. So that is what actually must have happened but the folders are
still lost.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Ok - that was my thought too - reconstruct what I had done - so I made a
test
folder and drug it all around the top area. You're right, it would not let
me
move it to the blue area. However, I lost the test folder somewhere
between
the "unread mail" headline and "arrange by: folder".

I don't see any "headline" named "Unread Mail" or the words "arrange by:
folder".

 

[vickiv]

Obviously I am not sure what the names of the different screen components
are. When I am in Outlook to check my mail my screen is divided into panes,
for lack of knowing the correct terminology, and the one to the far left says
"mail". If I click on the folder "unread mail" in my favorite folders list
(all of which is in the "mail" pane) then the next pane, to the right, is
where Outlook displays the contents of the "unread mail" folder. Underneath
where it says "unread mail" is the search bar and under neath that is a bar
that says "arranged by:". This is what you click on to sort your mail items
that are displayed.

I don't know if that helps clarify what I am talking about or not. Either
way - thanks so much for your continued attempts at helping me. I've now
spent 2 days on this and it is so frustrating.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Obviously I am not sure what the names of the different screen components
are. When I am in Outlook to check my mail my screen is divided into
panes,
for lack of knowing the correct terminology, and the one to the far left
says
"mail".

That's the "Navigation Pane" and you're using its "Mail" view. It cannot
show any folder type but those that hold mail messages. See the buttons at
the bottom of the pane? Click the "Folder List" button or press Ctrl-6.
This will display all your folders, not just the mail folders. Perhaps
you'll see the missing folders that way.

 

[vickiv]

Thanks again. However, that was one of the first things I tried. I took my
comp to a friend that knows a lot about computers (works in IT) but he could
not figure it out either. I have decided my computer has an Outlook black
hole.

Thanks for your help though.

 

[Michaelh]

I concur with Vickiv since it also happened to me. I dragged by error a folder out of the folder list pane and it dissapears and I couldn`t find where it must have gone and tried already to see in the folder list and also do advanced search.

 

[eiger3970]

I also cannot find a mailbox I created via
Tools
Options
Delegates
to connect to SBS 2008 on Exchange 2007.

If I right click the 'Outlook Today' icon it gives the options to untick the
Standard bar
Advanced bar
Web bar
Customize.

I read a forum which said this would take me to properties to find the missing email folder...oh well, on I search for a few more hours/days.

 

[silversuperman]

I realize this is like a year late. but maybe this will help somebody else that has the same problem down the road.

What I noticed is if you are dragging a folder across the mail pane and happen to be viewing lets say your deleted folder but are dragging a sub-folder of your inbox and accidently drop the folder over top of an e-mail in the pane your viewing it will actually make the folder your dragging a sub-folder of the one you were viewing at the time. So in this case the folder you were dragging becomes a subfolder of the deleted folder because i happened to have had the deleted folder open b/c i was looking for an e-mail i deleted.

So, if you were dragging a folder and dropped it on top of an e-mail then it becomes a subfolder of the current folder you have open. hope this helps somebody in the future.