How to prevent Outlook temp files from staying in OLK directories.

Greetings, kapara !

You can manually delete the files from the OLK folder, or write a batch file to delete them

cd C:\Documents and Settings\profilename\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK11
del *.*
pause

Reference: http://www.computing.net/programming/wwwboard/forum/14395.html


Best wishes!

Hi kapara,

If you want to clean these files up on your computer, then I can provide a simple macro that will run and delete the contents of this folder each time Outlook shuts down.  If you are on a network and use roaming profiles or are concerned about leaving files on other computers where a macro isn't an option, then a manual clean up is going to be required.

Cheers!

kapara,

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Thanks, war1

Sorry for not responding.  Been out of town.  I am interested in a solution that does not require the user to have to perform any action.  This Macro sounds like an interesting solution.  Could you please give me more details?

Thanks

kapara,

You can run the batch file that I posted above. 06/20/2006 12:19PM PDT

Thanks guys

BlueDevilFan gave me a solution which is more suited to my requirement in that it requires no user interaction and is automatically executed when Outlook closes.  You say this only applies to local profiles and not roaming profiles.  Is there a way to deploy this macro to all users?  Is there a chance that it can be added via customization of an MST file or have a vbscript which can be run in a logon script which adds the macro to Outlook?


Thanks,

It might work okay with roaming profiles once installed.  Unfortunately, there is no way to install a macro from outside Outlook.  It's a shortcomming that Microsoft needs to address.  

Is the macro stored in the user profile or is it a common macro which applies to all users?

There is no concept of a common macro in Outlook.  They are all user specific.  Macros are kept in a file named VBAProject.otm.  The file format hasn't been published making it impossible to modify from outside Outlook.  You could overwrite it from a login script so long as you are certain that the users don't have any macros already.  If they did, then you'd wipe theirs out in favor of yours.