Remove special folders from .pst file

Hi, for some reason one of my .pst folders has Inbox, Sent Items etc in it -
the others do not. Is there any way to remove these folders, as the delete is
grayed out, and I cant do it via VBA either.

Gordon
Fri May 09 01:08:40 PDT 2008

"pmatz" <pmatz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:26FCE276-CF5B-44DD-AE7F-AAAA0CCB7AAF@microsoft.com...
> Hi, for some reason one of my .pst folders has Inbox, Sent Items etc in
> it -
> the others do not. Is there any way to remove these folders, as the delete
> is
> grayed out, and I cant do it via VBA either.


That'll be the file that is set as the default mail delivery location. And
no, you can't get rid of them.

pmatz
Fri May 09 01:26:00 PDT 2008

My default mail delivery location is my exhange folder, which has all special
folders as expected, and where my mail comes into the inbox. Not sure how
the .pst took them. Perhaps I set it as a defualt mail delivery location by
accident at some point and that created these folders.

"Gordon" wrote:

>
>
> That'll be the file that is set as the default mail delivery location. And
> no, you can't get rid of them.
>
>

Brian
Fri May 09 08:05:33 PDT 2008

pmatz <pmatz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My default mail delivery location is my exhange folder, which has all
> special folders as expected, and where my mail comes into the inbox.
> Not sure how the .pst took them. Perhaps I set it as a defualt mail
> delivery location by accident at some point and that created these
> folders.

If at any time a PST is made the delivery location, Outlook will precreate
the default folders and make them undeletable. Even if later the delivery
location is no longer the PST, you will not be able to delete them. A new
PST will not get those folders until its made the delivery location or until
you create them manually. I believe they're deletable if you create them
manually.

To get rid of them requires creating a new PST and moving all the folders
except for the ones you don't want to the new PST and then closing the old
PST.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

pmatz
Fri May 09 10:51:00 PDT 2008

Thanks for the confirmation Brian. I thought this might be the case, and
only resolution.

Kind regards

Paul

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

> pmatz <pmatz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > My default mail delivery location is my exhange folder, which has all
> > special folders as expected, and where my mail comes into the inbox.
> > Not sure how the .pst took them. Perhaps I set it as a defualt mail
> > delivery location by accident at some point and that created these
> > folders.
>
> If at any time a PST is made the delivery location, Outlook will precreate
> the default folders and make them undeletable. Even if later the delivery
> location is no longer the PST, you will not be able to delete them. A new
> PST will not get those folders until its made the delivery location or until
> you create them manually. I believe they're deletable if you create them
> manually.
>
> To get rid of them requires creating a new PST and moving all the folders
> except for the ones you don't want to the new PST and then closing the old
> PST.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
>