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Outlook 2003 not showing all folders

Outlook 2003 appears to be hiding some folders: if a parent folder has sub-folders under it, when we expand the parent folder, not all of the sub-folders display. If we check Folder Size under the parent folder properties, all of the sub-folders are listed.

If we restart Outlook, all of the sub-folders will display; they are hidden again after using Outlook for any length of time. Office is up-to-date with SP3 and all updates. This is the only station of 12 that has this problem; all stations are configured the same way.

apache09

If you Open Outlook in safe mode are they there?
Start>Run>outlook.exe /safe

A few Command line Switches that may help:
Start>Run>outlook.exe /resetnavpane
Start>Run>outlook.exe /resetfolders

More about Outlook 2003 command line switches:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010031101033.aspx

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delerium62

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I'll try you first suggestions, though it will take a few days since the workstation in question is in another location.

ScanPST was done on this workstation about a month ago.

apache09

No problem.

Was ScanPst used to try and resolve this issue, or ran for another reason.

delerium62

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No, scanpst was used to solve a different issue - if I remember correctly it was due to some performance issues.

Should have some results later this week since person using that workstation is on holidays at the moment, but will be returning tomorrow.

delerium62

ASKER

It's been about a week and no problems: did run scanpst again anyway and the user has archived a lot of their emails, etc., so somewhere between those two items, it seems to be working correctly. Thanks for all the suggestions - somehow I think I may have to revisit the issue again later (but you never know).