{"id":148,"date":"2010-05-26T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/problems-deleting-an-outlook-folder\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:06:00","slug":"problems-deleting-an-outlook-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/problems-deleting-an-outlook-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems Deleting an Outlook Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some strange problems with Outlook for the past couple of weeks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>complains about things not being closed properly<\/li>\n<li>usually crashes the first time I try to print a message<\/li>\n<li>crashed when I tried to select a couple of messages (it&#8217;s challenging to delete a message when you can&#8217;t click on it!)<\/li>\n<li>very slow opening and closing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Probably the <a href=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/better-microsoft-outlook-searches\/\">Outlook<\/a> file was getting pretty big, so I deleted a bunch of messages, and compacted the Personal Folder. The Outlook.pst file was reduced to about half its previous size, but some of the problems persist.<\/p>\n<h2>How To Delete an Outlook Subfolder<\/h2>\n<p>Today I wanted to delete a subfolder that I don&#8217;t need, and even though the folder is empty, an Outlook showed a message said the folder was full, and couldn&#8217;t be deleted. Or maybe I didn&#8217;t have the correct permissions, and should check with the Administrator. Well, I&#8217;m the Administrator, and have permission to do whatever I want! <\/p>\n<p>Google showed me how to get rid of that folder though. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Press the Ctrl key while opening Outlook, and confirm that you want to open in Safe mode.<\/li>\n<li>Then, while you&#8217;re in Safe mode, select the folder and delete it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve run into a similar problem, I hope this works for you too.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some strange problems with Outlook for the past couple of weeks complains about things not being closed properly usually crashes the first time I try to print a message crashed when I tried to select a couple of messages (it&#8217;s challenging to delete a message when you can&#8217;t click on it!) very slow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/problems-deleting-an-outlook-folder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Problems Deleting an Outlook Folder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-office-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Problems Deleting an Outlook Folder - Debra D&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/problems-deleting-an-outlook-folder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Problems Deleting an Outlook Folder - Debra D&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve had some strange problems with Outlook for the past couple of weeks complains about things not being closed properly usually crashes the first time I try to print a message crashed when I tried to select a couple of messages (it&#8217;s challenging to delete a message when you can&#8217;t click on it!) very slow &hellip; 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