"Unable to display the folder ..." HELP PLEASE!!

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george fotion

I moved certain folders from Outlook 2002 by dragging the
folders into a subfolder within "My Document" folder.

Each of the folders moved in this manner contain numerous
important emails. Now when I double click the moved
folder which resides no longer in Outlook, but in My
Documents, I get this error:

Unable to display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook
could not access the specified folder location. Could not
open the item. Try again.

How do I get to the contents of these folders now?

Signed,

Desperate!
 
Did you move the folders from the Folder List or did you just move shortcuts
from the Outlook Bar? I am using Outlook 2003 (I know that's a different
version from yours, but I don't have Outlok 2002 installed to test on right
now) and I could not reproduce this issue. When I attempt to copy or move
an Outlook folder from the Folder List to My Documents, I get a shortcut
which, if double-clicked, opens that folder for me in Outlook. Nothing is
actually moved, just copied (even if I right-click and drag the folder and
choose "Move" from the popup menu).

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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Jocelyn,

thanks for the reply. i think i'm fubar'd. I gotta
feeling that what i did was to copy the shortcut, not the
folder. so when i deleted the folder in outlook, the
shortcut created in "my documents" no longer refers to
anything accessible. i'm screwed right?
 
I'm afraid so...if you deleted the folder in Outlook, it's gone.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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