Need To Delete Personal Folders

G

Guest

I'm running Windows XP-Home and Office 2003. In Outlook I have three sets of
Personal Folders that are identical. How do I get rid of two sets? Right
clicking doesn't give me an option to delete the folders. I've been looking
in Local settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook and see the following:
extend.dat, outcmd.dat, outlook.NK2, outlook.pst, outlook.srs, outlook.xml,
and outlookHotmail-00000004.pst. Should I be looking elsewhere?
 
G

Guest

You cannot delete, just right click and Close. Renaming your Personal Folder
will give it a more meaningful name. You will not be able to Close the main
personal folder.
 
G

Guest

As I said in my previous post, I have 3 personal folders and they are
identical. They have the same sub folders and items in them, etc. I cannot
get rid of any of them. The option to close them is grayed out on all three.
I don't have a problem with the name, I just don't want 3 of them.
Something has to be controlling what is displayed in the navigation pane.
 
G

Guest

The steps outlined in your link didn't work. I only have one Outlook.pst
file. when I go into properties for the Personal Folder and select advanced,
I get a message that the object could not be found. I get that for all three
Personal folders.

Russ Valentine said:
You corrupted your profile my migrating data incorrectly. You must create a
new profile from scratch and use the supported method for migrating Outlook
data:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010771141033&CTT=98

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Loris said:
As I said in my previous post, I have 3 personal folders and they are
identical. They have the same sub folders and items in them, etc. I
cannot
get rid of any of them. The option to close them is grayed out on all
three.
I don't have a problem with the name, I just don't want 3 of them.
Something has to be controlling what is displayed in the navigation pane.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

Read my post again. You did not follow what I posted. All you are telling me
is what I already know. You have a corrupt profile. Of course you only have
one PST file. You also have two corrupt references to that file in your
profile.
If that bothers you, then do what I posted. Create a new profile form
scratch. If it doesn't bother you, then just leave it alone.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Loris said:
The steps outlined in your link didn't work. I only have one Outlook.pst
file. when I go into properties for the Personal Folder and select
advanced,
I get a message that the object could not be found. I get that for all
three
Personal folders.

Russ Valentine said:
You corrupted your profile my migrating data incorrectly. You must create
a
new profile from scratch and use the supported method for migrating
Outlook
data:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010771141033&CTT=98

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Loris said:
As I said in my previous post, I have 3 personal folders and they are
identical. They have the same sub folders and items in them, etc. I
cannot
get rid of any of them. The option to close them is grayed out on all
three.
I don't have a problem with the name, I just don't want 3 of them.
Something has to be controlling what is displayed in the navigation
pane.

:

You cannot delete, just right click and Close. Renaming your Personal
Folder
will give it a more meaningful name. You will not be able to Close the
main
personal folder.

:

I'm running Windows XP-Home and Office 2003. In Outlook I have three
sets of
Personal Folders that are identical. How do I get rid of two sets?
Right
clicking doesn't give me an option to delete the folders. I've been
looking
in Local settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook and see the
following:
extend.dat, outcmd.dat, outlook.NK2, outlook.pst, outlook.srs,
outlook.xml,
and outlookHotmail-00000004.pst. Should I be looking elsewhere?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
G

Guest

Please don't think me obtuse or unappreciative. I created a new profile, but
I still can't bring in the data, old emails, calendar, contacts from the old
one. When I try to import it, it tells me that the object was not found.

Russ Valentine said:
Read my post again. You did not follow what I posted. All you are telling me
is what I already know. You have a corrupt profile. Of course you only have
one PST file. You also have two corrupt references to that file in your
profile.
If that bothers you, then do what I posted. Create a new profile form
scratch. If it doesn't bother you, then just leave it alone.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Loris said:
The steps outlined in your link didn't work. I only have one Outlook.pst
file. when I go into properties for the Personal Folder and select
advanced,
I get a message that the object could not be found. I get that for all
three
Personal folders.

Russ Valentine said:
You corrupted your profile my migrating data incorrectly. You must create
a
new profile from scratch and use the supported method for migrating
Outlook
data:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010771141033&CTT=98

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
As I said in my previous post, I have 3 personal folders and they are
identical. They have the same sub folders and items in them, etc. I
cannot
get rid of any of them. The option to close them is grayed out on all
three.
I don't have a problem with the name, I just don't want 3 of them.
Something has to be controlling what is displayed in the navigation
pane.

:

You cannot delete, just right click and Close. Renaming your Personal
Folder
will give it a more meaningful name. You will not be able to Close the
main
personal folder.

:

I'm running Windows XP-Home and Office 2003. In Outlook I have three
sets of
Personal Folders that are identical. How do I get rid of two sets?
Right
clicking doesn't give me an option to delete the folders. I've been
looking
in Local settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook and see the
following:
extend.dat, outcmd.dat, outlook.NK2, outlook.pst, outlook.srs,
outlook.xml,
and outlookHotmail-00000004.pst. Should I be looking elsewhere?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

No instructions I posted ever told you to import your PST file. You never
import PST files. That is what corrupted your profile in the first place.
Please follow the instructions I posted, or if you are unable, tell me what
you don't understand about them.
The abridged version is:
1. Open the PST file you want to use in your new profile
2. Set that PST file as your default
3. Restart Outlook
4. Close the empty PST file your new profile created so that you will have
only one PST file
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Loris said:
Please don't think me obtuse or unappreciative. I created a new profile,
but
I still can't bring in the data, old emails, calendar, contacts from the
old
one. When I try to import it, it tells me that the object was not found.

Russ Valentine said:
Read my post again. You did not follow what I posted. All you are telling
me
is what I already know. You have a corrupt profile. Of course you only
have
one PST file. You also have two corrupt references to that file in your
profile.
If that bothers you, then do what I posted. Create a new profile form
scratch. If it doesn't bother you, then just leave it alone.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Loris said:
The steps outlined in your link didn't work. I only have one
Outlook.pst
file. when I go into properties for the Personal Folder and select
advanced,
I get a message that the object could not be found. I get that for all
three
Personal folders.

:

You corrupted your profile my migrating data incorrectly. You must
create
a
new profile from scratch and use the supported method for migrating
Outlook
data:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010771141033&CTT=98

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
As I said in my previous post, I have 3 personal folders and they
are
identical. They have the same sub folders and items in them, etc. I
cannot
get rid of any of them. The option to close them is grayed out on
all
three.
I don't have a problem with the name, I just don't want 3 of them.
Something has to be controlling what is displayed in the navigation
pane.

:

You cannot delete, just right click and Close. Renaming your
Personal
Folder
will give it a more meaningful name. You will not be able to Close
the
main
personal folder.

:

I'm running Windows XP-Home and Office 2003. In Outlook I have
three
sets of
Personal Folders that are identical. How do I get rid of two
sets?
Right
clicking doesn't give me an option to delete the folders. I've
been
looking
in Local settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook and see the
following:
extend.dat, outcmd.dat, outlook.NK2, outlook.pst, outlook.srs,
outlook.xml,
and outlookHotmail-00000004.pst. Should I be looking elsewhere?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Similar Threads

Need To Delete a set of Personal Folders 1
3 sets of Personal Folders showing? 2
NK2 File not created/not recognised 6
3 copies of personal folders 1
Restoring Outlook 2003 files 2
Problems with Outlook starting continued.... 12
Delete my other 2 Personal Folders? 8
Some Outlook Folders Lost 7

Top