Protecting "folders" in a .PST file?

[Karl Perry]

Using Outlook 2003 in Windows XP. It's my personal copy of Outlook, and the
..PST file is stored on my local computer. I am not running in an Exchange
environment, and I never will.

All of this post has to do with the e-mail related folders that can be
created in an Outlook .PST file. I am not talking about the folders on my
hard disk.

Today I accidentally renamed an important Outlook folder. It took half an
hour of panicked looking before I realized that I hadn't accidentally
deleted it. In the past I've accidentally moved folders.

I'd like to prevent this in the future. Is there any way I can set
properties of Outlook folders, like CannotBeRenamed, CannotBeMoved,
CannotBeDeleted?

TIA.

 

[Gordon]

Using Outlook 2003 in Windows XP. It's my personal copy of Outlook, and
the .PST file is stored on my local computer. I am not running in an
Exchange environment, and I never will.

All of this post has to do with the e-mail related folders that can be
created in an Outlook .PST file. I am not talking about the folders on my
hard disk.

The pst file IS a file "on your HDD".......

Today I accidentally renamed an important Outlook folder. It took half an
hour of panicked looking before I realized that I hadn't accidentally
deleted it. In the past I've accidentally moved folders.

I'd like to prevent this in the future. Is there any way I can set
properties of Outlook folders, like CannotBeRenamed, CannotBeMoved,
CannotBeDeleted?

TIA.

Not as far as I know......

 

[Karl Perry]

The pst file IS a file "on your HDD".......

I know that. There are lots of posts here about folders where the folders
under discussion are folders on the HDD. I wanted to make it clear that I'm
not talking about O/S folders, I'm talking about folders created within that
..PST which is a file in a folder on my HDD.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I know that. There are lots of posts here about folders where the
folders under discussion are folders on the HDD. I wanted to make it
clear that I'm not talking about O/S folders, I'm talking about
folders created within that .PST which is a file in a folder on my
HDD.

The only folders within Outlook that cannot be renamed are the default
fodlers that Outlook itself creates (i.e., Contacts, Calendar, Inbox,
Outbox, etc.) and there's no way to protect any folder you create except by
paying attention to what you're doing.