Mail in personal folder moved

[Guest]

A user created several subfolders under her personal folders in outlook. She
moved mailed into these subfolders that she wanted to keep which is fine.
However, she decided to move the subfolders directly from outlook to a
network share instead of doing it the proper way and copying the .pst folder
from within her local settings to the network share and then pointing the
data file to that network share. The mail folders that she moved are on the
network share but not of a .pst file extention of course. Is there anyway to
get these back into her personal folders the right way?

 

[Joe Grover]

What is the file extension? I was unaware you could even do such a thing.
If I drag folders out of my Outlook it only creates shortcuts. :/

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It is impossible to move a folder this way; it will create a xnk file which
is a link and leave the folder in Outlook. If the folders are no longer
there they must have been removed by another manual action of the user.

Also note that connecting to pst-file is not supported or recommended by
Microsoft.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your timely response....after talking more with the user, I found
out just what she did. She would open up mail messages that she had saved
within the personal folders subfolders and save them as an Outlook message
item (.msg) to a network share and then delete the mail that was currently in
the personal folder. Any suggestions???

It is impossible to move a folder this way; it will create a xnk file which
is a link and leave the folder in Outlook. If the folders are no longer
there they must have been removed by another manual action of the user.

Also note that connecting to pst-file is not supported or recommended by
Microsoft.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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A user created several subfolders under her personal folders in outlook.
She
moved mailed into these subfolders that she wanted to keep which is fine.
However, she decided to move the subfolders directly from outlook to a
network share instead of doing it the proper way and copying the .pst
folder
from within her local settings to the network share and then pointing the
data file to that network share. The mail folders that she moved are on
the
network share but not of a .pst file extention of course. Is there anyway
to
get these back into her personal folders the right way?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your timely response....after talking more with the user, I found
out just what she did. She would open up mail messages that she had saved
within the personal folders subfolders and save them as an Outlook message
item (.msg) to a network share and then delete the mail that was currently in
the personal folder. Any suggestions???

 

[Joe Grover]

You could try just creating a subfolder in her Inbox and dragging the
messages into them? I just saved an email to my desktop as a .msg file,
then created a folder called Test and dragged it from the Desktop into that
folder and the message is there fine.

Joe

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can drag and drop msg-files back into Outlook.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Thanks for your timely response....after talking more with the user, I
found
out just what she did. She would open up mail messages that she had saved
within the personal folders subfolders and save them as an Outlook message
item (.msg) to a network share and then delete the mail that was currently
in
the personal folder. Any suggestions???

It is impossible to move a folder this way; it will create a xnk file
which
is a link and leave the folder in Outlook. If the folders are no longer
there they must have been removed by another manual action of the user.

Also note that connecting to pst-file is not supported or recommended by
Microsoft.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

A user created several subfolders under her personal folders in outlook.
She
moved mailed into these subfolders that she wanted to keep which is
fine.
However, she decided to move the subfolders directly from outlook to a
network share instead of doing it the proper way and copying the .pst
folder
from within her local settings to the network share and then pointing
the
data file to that network share. The mail folders that she moved are on
the
network share but not of a .pst file extention of course. Is there
anyway
to
get these back into her personal folders the right way?

 

[Guest]

Thanks,

That worked out great!

You could try just creating a subfolder in her Inbox and dragging the
messages into them? I just saved an email to my desktop as a .msg file,
then created a folder called Test and dragged it from the Desktop into that
folder and the message is there fine.

Joe

 

[Guest]

Thanks....that worked out.

You can drag and drop msg-files back into Outlook.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

Thanks for your timely response....after talking more with the user, I
found
out just what she did. She would open up mail messages that she had saved
within the personal folders subfolders and save them as an Outlook message
item (.msg) to a network share and then delete the mail that was currently
in
the personal folder. Any suggestions???

It is impossible to move a folder this way; it will create a xnk file
which
is a link and leave the folder in Outlook. If the folders are no longer
there they must have been removed by another manual action of the user.

Also note that connecting to pst-file is not supported or recommended by
Microsoft.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

-----
A user created several subfolders under her personal folders in outlook.
She
moved mailed into these subfolders that she wanted to keep which is
fine.
However, she decided to move the subfolders directly from outlook to a
network share instead of doing it the proper way and copying the .pst
folder
from within her local settings to the network share and then pointing
the
data file to that network share. The mail folders that she moved are on
the
network share but not of a .pst file extention of course. Is there
anyway
to
get these back into her personal folders the right way?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

Thanks....that worked out.

You can drag and drop msg-files back into Outlook.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

Thanks for your timely response....after talking more with the user, I
found
out just what she did. She would open up mail messages that she had
saved
within the personal folders subfolders and save them as an Outlook
message
item (.msg) to a network share and then delete the mail that was
currently
in
the personal folder. Any suggestions???

:

It is impossible to move a folder this way; it will create a xnk file
which
is a link and leave the folder in Outlook. If the folders are no
longer
there they must have been removed by another manual action of the
user.

Also note that connecting to pst-file is not supported or recommended
by
Microsoft.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

-----
A user created several subfolders under her personal folders in
outlook.
She
moved mailed into these subfolders that she wanted to keep which is
fine.
However, she decided to move the subfolders directly from outlook
to a
network share instead of doing it the proper way and copying the
.pst
folder
from within her local settings to the network share and then
pointing
the
data file to that network share. The mail folders that she moved are
on
the
network share but not of a .pst file extention of course. Is there
anyway
to
get these back into her personal folders the right way?