Duplicate Personal Folders but really only one file

[Gilbert Baron]

I have Personal Folders TWICE in Outlook 2003. They both contain
EXACTLY the same thing. This makes it impassible to remove the folder.
Yes, I tried the instructions in help but cannot do it since I cannot
get delivery to be to only one of these folders. Anything that happens
to one also happens to the other, it is strange. from the tree. this
is very confusing and very annoying and I don't see any way around it
other than reinstall of Outlook and entering all of my contacts and
folders again form scratch.

I look at the spot where the pst file is stored and there is only one
but there is another with .pst.000 on the end. Removing the one with
the .000 does not change a thing.


HELP please!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Recreate your mail profile. Reinstalling won't help as it is because of a
corrupt settings not a corrupt installation.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm

--
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www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
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I have Personal Folders TWICE in Outlook 2003. They both contain
EXACTLY the same thing. This makes it impassible to remove the folder.
Yes, I tried the instructions in help but cannot do it since I cannot
get delivery to be to only one of these folders. Anything that happens
to one also happens to the other, it is strange. from the tree. this
is very confusing and very annoying and I don't see any way around it
other than reinstall of Outlook and entering all of my contacts and
folders again form scratch.

I look at the spot where the pst file is stored and there is only one
but there is another with .pst.000 on the end. Removing the one with
the .000 does not change a thing.


HELP please!

 

[Gil Baron]

Recreate your mail profile. Reinstalling won't help as it is because of a
corrupt settings not a corrupt installation.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm

What is the profile? I deleted the email account and recreated it, no change except you lose all your rules. NOT NICE, went back to checkpoint.

 

[Gil Baron]

Recreate your mail profile. Reinstalling won't help as it is because of a
corrupt settings not a corrupt installation.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm

I tried this onerous process made even more so because I have 6 accounts. I created a new profile and selected the old folder as the place to deliver mail and then removed the new one. Somehow it kept my rules and I suppose I have an extra but empty pst still ti dekete, I have to do this for my wifes userid too,What a PITA.
I suspect eazyback caused this in the first place but not sure, Don't understand how outlook could really display two identical personal folders when only oneactually exist. I assume the data structures got really Fed up.

 

[Gil Baron]

I have Personal Folders TWICE in Outlook 2003. They both contain
EXACTLY the same thing. This makes it impassible to remove the folder.
Yes, I tried the instructions in help but cannot do it since I cannot
get delivery to be to only one of these folders. Anything that happens
to one also happens to the other, it is strange. from the tree. this
is very confusing and very annoying and I don't see any way around it
other than reinstall of Outlook and entering all of my contacts and
folders again form scratch.

I look at the spot where the pst file is stored and there is only one
but there is another with .pst.000 on the end. Removing the one with
the .000 does not change a thing.


HELP please!

REPOST, MAYBE ANSWER THIS TIME?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Don't
understand how outlook could really display two identical personal
folders when only one actually exist.

The mail profile is a series of keys in the Windows registry and when two of
the keys that describe where a PST can be found contain exactly the same
data, you will see two identical entries. This discrepancy can occur by
importing a PST or by copying one PST over the top of an identically named
one already in the mail profile, among other actions. Since a new mail
profile creates these keys afresh with no PST entries, a new mail profile
invariably corrects this problem unless the person again performs whatever
action corrupted it in the first place.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I tried this onerous process made even more so because I have 6
accounts. I created a new profile and selected the old folder as the
place to deliver mail and then removed the new one. Somehow it kept
my rules and I suppose I have an extra but empty pst still ti dekete,

Since the rules are stored in the PST, it's not surprising you still have
them. As to being an onerous task, the Office Save My Settings Wizard can
reduce the difficulty in recreating your accounts.

 

[Brian Tillman]

REPOST, MAYBE ANSWER THIS TIME?

Robert did answer you, as you know, since you responded multiple times to
his post. Also, One of your responses seems to indicate that creating a new
mail profile worked for you despite the "onerousness" of the task.

 

[Gil Baron]

Robert did answer you, as you know, since you responded multiple times to
his post. Also, One of your responses seems to indicate that creating a new
mail profile worked for you despite the "onerousness" of the task.

C rossed in the mail so to speak and I thank all for the help,
Now perhaps my really biggest problem.
MANY messages are being converted HTML-PLAIN TEXT, Note that not all. I do not have view all in text checked.
I rally get frustrated with this but it sees a case of WAD? Is that truly the design I pray not, Seems thss began after a Microsoft update!

 

[Brian Tillman]

C rossed in the mail so to speak and I thank all for the help,
Now perhaps my really biggest problem.
MANY messages are being converted HTML-PLAIN TEXT, Note that not all.

In the Inbox or only the Junk E-mail? Is it truly Plain Text or are the
links merely inactive? Office 2003 SP2 added antiphishing features to
Outlook that will always convert to Plain Text HTML messages placed in the
Junk E-mail folder and you can see them as HTML by moving them to another
folder. It also added disabling links that appear to be phishing exploits
in all folders. Other then that, I don't know of any selective ability to
change HTML to Plain Text. It's either all or nothing based on the option
of which you're familiar.

 

[Gil Baron]

Outlook that will always convert to Plain Text HTML messages placed in the
Junk E-mail folder and you can see them as HTML by moving them to another

THANKS,that is the answer. I dont like it but I do understand it. I did not notice that all of the events were in the junk folder.