Removing my old email from someone else's computer

[Steve]

I set up a profile on a co-workers computer and downloaded email from our
exchange server into Outlook 2003 on a co-workers Win XP machine.

How can I delete the .pst or whatever to make sure that the email that I
viewed on his computer is not availalable at all?

Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I set up a profile on a co-workers computer and downloaded email
from our exchange server into Outlook 2003 on a co-workers Win XP
machine.

How can I delete the .pst or whatever to make sure that the email
that I viewed on his computer is not availalable at all?

Delete the profile in Control Panel>Mail and delete the PST using Windows
Explorer.

 

[Steve]

Since this was read through the exchange server, where do I find my .pst? I
do not want to accidently delete his.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Since this was read through the exchange server, where do I find my
.pst? I do not want to accidently delete his.

If you were accessing your Exchange mailbox via an Exchange account on
someone else's PC, then deleting your Exchange account on that PC will be
sufficient, since everything's still on the server and nothing was loaded
locally. If you downloaded anything from the Exchange server, then you
should delete whatever PST you downloaded it to, or at least delete the
items you downloaded.

 

[Steve]

I do not think I technically downloaded any email, I did not remove it from
the server, I just accessed it through Outlook on his computer.

1. What would happen if I delete the .pst the way you told me to in your
previous response, since both my account and his are being accessed through
the exchange and nothing is downloaded?

2. How do I delete the exchange account?

3. Is there anywhere else where messages are cached on the computer? I am
trying to ensure that he or no one else on that computer will be able to
search email using the new Google search program.

Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

1. What would happen if I delete the .pst the way you told me to in
your previous response, since both my account and his are being
accessed through the exchange and nothing is downloaded?

If your delivery is the Exchange mailbox, you may not even have a PST.

2. How do I delete the exchange account?

Tools>E-mail Accounts>Next will allow you do delete it, but what did you do
to access your mailbox on his computer? Did you erase his
username/password/domain when you signed in and enter your own? If so, as
long as you didn't tell it to remember your password, there shouldn't be a
problem.

3. Is there anywhere else where messages are cached on the computer?

If you use Cached Exchange mode, then the OST on his computer may contain a
cache of your messages, but just delete it with Outlook off and you can
guarantee that nothing of yours remains. If you don't use cached mode or
you didn't sync with Outlook (i.e., there's no OST), then you didn't
download anything.

 

[Steve]

1. delivery is exchange mailbox, so most likely there is no .pst

2. i did exactly what you said, only i chose my profile from the drop down
list when first opening outlook and then i erased his username and entered
my own with the password

3. not sure if i used cached exchange mode, but that must be what is
causing my messages to display when searching for them through google. how
do i find the ost file? how would i know if i am deleting my file or his?


thanks!!!!!

 

[Brian Tillman]

1. delivery is exchange mailbox, so most likely there is no .pst

You would know just by looking. If there is only one entry int he Folder
List on the left (Outlook Today), then that should be the Exchange server.
If there are two, (Outlook Today and Personal Folders), then there is a PST.
However, if you didn't move anything into the PST, there's nothing to worry
about.

2. i did exactly what you said, only i chose my profile from the drop
down list when first opening outlook and then i erased his username
and entered my own with the password

So, if there are two profiles on the machine, you must have created one of
them, unless there is some mechanism I don't recognize, like roaming
profiles, since I don't use them. If you did create a profile, delete it if
you wish, but it contains no mail data.

3. not sure if i used cached exchange mode, but that must be what is
causing my messages to display when searching for them through
google. how do i find the ost file? how would i know if i am deleting
my file or his?

You find the OST by enabling hidden files and folders and searching to
*.ost. There should be something that ties it to the profile, I would
think. By default, though, the OST gets created with the name Outlook.ost.
You can see its name by clicking Tools>E-mail Accounts>Next, selecting the
Exchange account, clicking Change, More Settings, Advanced, then Offline
Folder File Settings. If the OST is in your Windows user profile and he
uses a different Windows username, then it should be safe for you to delete
the one under your folder tree. However, unless his account is an
Administrator account, I don't know how he can see your files.

 

[Steve]

3. do you mean enable hidden files nad folders through tools>folder
options>view>show hidden files and folders

4. since the email is still on the server, even if I accidently delete his
OST, what would happen?


Thanks!!!!!

 

[Brian Tillman]

3. do you mean enable hidden files nad folders through tools>folder
options>view>show hidden files and folders

Either that or the explicit options under "Advanced options" in search.

4. since the email is still on the server, even if I accidently
delete his OST, what would happen?

The next time he connected, it would be recreated.

 

[Steve]

Thanks for all your help!

Either that or the explicit options under "Advanced options" in search.


The next time he connected, it would be recreated.