Outlook 2000 organising folders

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Moi

Hello all.

Outlook 2000

I have successfully moved the location of my outlook.pst to My Documents,
using the artcile 257831 kindly mentioned here.

Everthing works OK EXCEPT when I try to move messages from the Inbox to a
sub-folder I previously used OK. The system still llooks for subfolder in
its previous place under Application Data. How can I hnage this please?

###thanks
 
How are you trying to move it? if the subfolder a folder within the current
pst or is it in a different pst?

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Moi said:
Everthing works OK EXCEPT when I try to move messages from the Inbox
to a sub-folder I previously used OK. The system still llooks for
subfolder in its previous place under Application Data. How can I
hnage this please?
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Are you choosing the entry on the "Move to Folder" drop-down? Rechoose the
folder by navigating to it to update that entry.
 
Brian Tillman said:
Are you choosing the entry on the "Move to Folder" drop-down? Rechoose
the folder by navigating to it to update that entry.
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To Brian and Diane

Thanks for the reply. I am using the 'organise' function within Outlook to
try and move messages from the Inbox to the subsidiary folders I had set up.
They were working Ok previously. I'd appreciate step-by-step guidance on
this.
 
Moi said:
Thanks for the reply. I am using the 'organise' function within
Outlook to try and move messages from the Inbox to the subsidiary
folders I had set up. They were working Ok previously. I'd
appreciate step-by-step guidance on this.
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Did you recreate your Organize filters?
 
Brian Tillman said:
Did you recreate your Organize filters?
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No. Well, this is what I just did. Created new subfolders with slightly
different names, eg BloggsNew instead of Bloggs. Under organise moved all
messages from eg Bloggs to BloggsNew, and then deleted the folder Bloggs!
Worked a treat. Thank heaps Brian!
 
Brian Tillman said:
Did you recreate your Organize filters?
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Thanks Brian. I have now, with complete success. Only one problem remains:
Although, after moving the messages, I have deleted the old sub folders
under Folder View, they still remain when I invoke the drop-down box in
Organise. Can you help with this?

And a partly unrelated thing. I always thought the pst file also held
newsgroups. But mine were not in the backed up pst file. I think Outlook
2000 actually invokes Outlook Express for Newsgroups. Where is the newsgroup
detail held? Can this file also be moved to My Documents, and thus be backed
up when I routinely do My Documents? Can you help with this too?
 
Moi said:
Sorry Brian Put it down to my ignorance. What I am saying is that I
created new subfolders and they appear in my folders view. I then
transferred emails to them from the old folders and then deleted the old
folders (in the folder view). Now, under 'organise' I get a list of
folders when I drop down that box, and the old folders are still shown in
that list (as well as the new ones). They are of course invalid for
transfer, as they should be. What I would like to do is clean up the
presentation so that the drop down box no longer shows the old and deleted
folders, in other words to bring the organise/drop down box in line with
the folder view.
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And I explained to you where that clean up can be done in the registry.
Visit http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/mru.htm and read the location for the
"Move to Folder" MRU (most recently used) list. Open regedit, locate that
key, and empty it.
 
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