How do I find a misplaced folder in Outlook 2007?

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vickiv

All the folders are expanded and it is not in any of them. I accidentally
drug the folder onto the blue space at the top of the screen and it
disappeared. Outlook 2007 - Vista.

Thanks.
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

You need to right click on the root of your mailbox store and use Advanced
Find to look for mail items.

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After furious head scratching, vickiv asked:

| All the folders are expanded and it is not in any of them. I
| accidentally drug the folder onto the blue space at the top of the
| screen and it disappeared. Outlook 2007 - Vista.
|
| Thanks.
 
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vickiv

Hi - I tried yours and Milly's suggestions. Unfortunately neither worked.
Maybe when I quit dragging the folder in the blue area it somehow moved out
of Outlook?

Thank you both for your suggestions.

Vicki
 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

Hi - I tried yours and Milly's suggestions. Unfortunately neither worked.
Maybe when I quit dragging the folder in the blue area it somehow moved
out
of Outlook?
Click to expand...

You can't drag a folder out of Outlook. Outlook folders aren't file system
objects. Perhaps you dragged it to another folder and it is now a subfolder
of some other folder, but Advanced FInd, as Milly said, should be able to
locate it if you can recall an item that was in the moved folder.

I don't understand what you mean by "blue area".
 
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vickiv

Brian,
Thanks again for continuing to respond to me. I didn't think it would be
possible to move the folder out of Outlook either. The :blue area" I am
talking about is the area at the top of the screen (when I am looking at
mail/unread mail) where there are no icons or toolbars, like just left of the
help space (which is on the upper right of my screen). I've checked every
folder in Outlook manually to see if the folder is in another one (it's not),
used advanced search (no luck), made sure there are no hidden outlook files -
I just don't know where it could have gone!

Vicki
 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

Thanks again for continuing to respond to me. I didn't think it would be
possible to move the folder out of Outlook either. The :blue area" I am
talking about is the area at the top of the screen (when I am looking at
mail/unread mail) where there are no icons or toolbars, like just left of
the
help space (which is on the upper right of my screen).
Click to expand...

If you're speaking of the empty area of Outlook's Menu and Tool bar space,
as far as I can tell, you can't drag a folder there. I can't at any rate.
Outlook doesn't allow it. Sorry, but I can't reconstruct what you may have
done well enough to suggest a solution.
 
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vickiv

Ok - that was my thought too - reconstruct what I had done - so I made a test
folder and drug it all around the top area. You're right, it would not let me
move it to the blue area. However, I lost the test folder somewhere between
the "unread mail" headline and "arrange by: folder". Now I can't find the
test folder anywhere either. I tried all the previous recommendations just to
make sure. So that is what actually must have happened but the folders are
still lost.
 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

Ok - that was my thought too - reconstruct what I had done - so I made a
test
folder and drug it all around the top area. You're right, it would not let
me
move it to the blue area. However, I lost the test folder somewhere
between
the "unread mail" headline and "arrange by: folder".
Click to expand...

I don't see any "headline" named "Unread Mail" or the words "arrange by:
folder".
 
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vickiv

Obviously I am not sure what the names of the different screen components
are. When I am in Outlook to check my mail my screen is divided into panes,
for lack of knowing the correct terminology, and the one to the far left says
"mail". If I click on the folder "unread mail" in my favorite folders list
(all of which is in the "mail" pane) then the next pane, to the right, is
where Outlook displays the contents of the "unread mail" folder. Underneath
where it says "unread mail" is the search bar and under neath that is a bar
that says "arranged by:". This is what you click on to sort your mail items
that are displayed.

I don't know if that helps clarify what I am talking about or not. Either
way - thanks so much for your continued attempts at helping me. I've now
spent 2 days on this and it is so frustrating.
 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

Obviously I am not sure what the names of the different screen components
are. When I am in Outlook to check my mail my screen is divided into
panes,
for lack of knowing the correct terminology, and the one to the far left
says
"mail".
Click to expand...

That's the "Navigation Pane" and you're using its "Mail" view. It cannot
show any folder type but those that hold mail messages. See the buttons at
the bottom of the pane? Click the "Folder List" button or press Ctrl-6.
This will display all your folders, not just the mail folders. Perhaps
you'll see the missing folders that way.
 
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vickiv

Thanks again. However, that was one of the first things I tried. I took my
comp to a friend that knows a lot about computers (works in IT) but he could
not figure it out either. I have decided my computer has an Outlook black
hole.

Thanks for your help though.
 
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