Folders question

[TomW]

I was dragging and dropping emails into created folders and had 5 emails
selected and dragging to a folder and inadvertently dropped them onto the top
of personal folders and they 'disappeared'. I only new the name of one of
them and searched for it and the location came back as 'Top of Personal
Folders'. I was able to drag from the results to the apropiate folder but
cannot locate the other 4 emails. I know they are in outlook by how can I
access the missing Emails if I dont know any of the search criteria? Can
anyone help me?
Thanks
TomW

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Right click the "Top of Personal Folders" and choose Properties.
Select the Home Page tab and disable the option: Show home page by default
for this folder
Click OK and you should be able to access the folder normally now and see
the messages.
Once moved, you can enable the option again.

Another way to go would be to do an Advanced Find (CTRL+SHIFT+F), only
select the top folder to search in (and not the sub folders) and press the
Find Now button without setting any further criteria. All the messages in
that folder should be returned now in your results.

 

[Hammar2007]

Hi, Roady. My problem is different from Tom's, but related.

When I do searches in Outlook ["Enterprise"] 2007, some of the results show
up as In Folder: Top of Personal Folders. I tried right-clicking as you
suggested to Tom, but none of the choices that showed up was "Properties."

So I tried the other thing you suggested, an advanced search. I used the
exact wording for the subject field and searched the entire mailbox for
subject field only. Nothing showed up.

And yet, I can open the email. So it's somewhere!

(I tried help first, of course. It has no entry for "Top of Personal Folder"
at all.)

Any light you can shed would be really, really appreciated.

Best regards,

hammar2007