Remove the Personal Folders

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I can't delete my Personal Folders in Folder list. When I
deleted it, it appeared this message : The operation
failed. An object could not be found.
And i also want to delete it in following step:
1 right click the outlook irons
2 click the properties
3 but i can't see my personal folders in the service bar
why???
 
Personal Folder is the default, it points to the pst file
Why are you trying to delete?
If you have multiple Personal Folders, ie multiple pst's, close it
 
I am having a similar problem as below. I am using MS Office/Outlook 2003. I
have 2 personal folders (with custom names) that I no longer need and want to
delete. When I right-click and click Close "Personal folder with custome
name", I get the same message: "The operation failed. An object could not be
found."

How do I delete these folders? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
 
JGM616 said:
I am having a similar problem as below. I am using MS Office/Outlook
2003. I have 2 personal folders (with custom names) that I no longer
need and want to delete. When I right-click and click Close "Personal
folder with custome name", I get the same message: "The operation
failed. An object could not be found."

How do I delete these folders? Any help would be appreciated.
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Do you see them in File>Data File Management? If not, did you delete the
PST from disk prior to trying to remove them from Outlook?
 
Wow, thanks for your quick response.

No, I do not see them in Data File Management, and yes, I probably deleted
the associated pst's before removing them from Outlook.

Now what do I do to get rid of them?

Janet
 
JGM616 said:
No, I do not see them in Data File Management, and yes, I probably
deleted the associated pst's before removing them from Outlook.
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You've corrupted your mail profile. You must close the PSTs in Outlook and
stop Outlook first before deleting the files. You can either look for those
folders in the Registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\currentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\yourprofilename and delete them or just create
a new mail profile with Control Panel>Mail.
 
Thanks so much Brian,

I couldn't find them in my Registry key, so I created a new mail profile.
But now I will have to recreate all my Personal Folders, as they don't show
up in my new profile. I had created Personal Folders for my Email archives,
one for each year.

No problem. I'll be more careful about creating them this time.

Thanks again,

Janet
 
JGM616 said:
profile. But now I will have to recreate all my Personal Folders, as
they don't show up in my new profile.
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Just use File>Open>Outlook Data File, browse to them and open them.
 
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