Main Identity not being cleaned up when deleting content

10. January 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags:
Hi All - I realised yesterday that I was running out of space on my hard drive. When checking what was using the space, it was the outlook main identity folder. It was 170GB big! I have recreated a main identity with the same content (from exchange server + imported 3 pst files).  It is back to a more normal 18GB size. This is the exact same content.

The only thing I can think of is that I import very often pst files then I delete them later on. To me it looks like the deleted content might never actually get removed from the Main Identity folders. 

Anyone else experience this? Is there a way to clean the Main Identity of deleted content?

Thanks

Outlook 2011 for Mac. How can I delete old calendar events?

27. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , ,
I migrated from Entourage a while ago, and now it's very slow. I have calendar events going back 10+ years, and my Main Identity is huge!

I'm also getting tasks repeating, so on a given calendar day there may be as many as a dozen of the same task or event, instead of one. I turned Sync Service off, that may help, but now I have a gazillion items to delete.

Is there any way to either export the last 2 years of my calendars, delete them all and import the calendars, or to do mass deletions of calendar items before 2 years ago?

Main Identity – Outlook for Mac 2011 Retrieving from back-up problem

16. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: ,

Hi

 

I am hoping someone can assist with this. My hard-drive on my iMac died on the weekend, I have a new one installed. I have all my files backed up on an WD Essential for Mac external drive, last done about 3 weeks ago. All the documents etc are there, I downloaded them last night and it says the last backup was 3 weeks ago. However when I retrieve them from the drive and copy to the new hard drive the Main Identity version appears to be one from December 2012? Why would the Main Identity file and all its contents (contacts, mail etc) not be a backup of the version of my mail from about 3 weeks ago like everything else?

 

Otherwise I have lost about 8 months of mail which is a problem.

 

Appreciate any thoughts. I hope this is the correct forum.

 

 

I delete the “Main Identity” and then found all my emails has gone. I have no back-up for the emails. What I can do to get back the emails. Thanks.

08. January 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags:
I am super worrying now.......Originally the Outlook required me to rebuild the "Main Identity" and I tried it more than 8 times but still unable to compete it and so it simply delete the Main Identity - then i found all my emails gone.

Can I get back the emails ? ( I have never done any back-up)  

Proper way to move the proper "Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity" folder back to "Documents"?

15. November 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , ,
My move-back of "Microsoft Office User Data" and identities was unsuccessful.  I see a "Main Identity" folder in "Documents", but with only some MB of data. I still see a "Main Identity" folder in "Applications" with my more real 2 GB of data in it, where it doesn't belong.  Should I, and how safely, now delete or move out the "false" Main Identity folders from documents (there is also a "Main Identity Copy" based on the almost-empty one, and several other "Main Identity" folder versions containing just a little data).  And then, what's the right way to move the real "Main Identity" folder back into documents?    Grateful,   Alex

Outlook office 2011, categorize colors of contacts do not show in Mail window. Works in Main Identity area but not in other user area.

19. October 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Outlook office 2011, 

Categorize colors of Contacts do not show in Mail window. 

Works in Main Identity area but not in other user area.


On my Mac, I have the main identity (admin) and my own desktop.

My wife has another login with her own desktop (Standard).

When I open Outlook, I see the mail window in my area, my email is the color of the Contact that I set in the Contacts Categorize option.

This is what I expect.


However when I start Outlook in my wife's user area (standard), the mail is NOT the colors of the Contact that was set in the Contacts Categorize option.


For both areas under Outlook Preferences, Categories, the Assign categories to messages from categorized contacts is check marked.


So how do I get my wifes area mail window to show the contact colors in the mail window ?

My Outlook disappeared / multiple identities

25. July 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , ,
My Outlook contents completely disappeared from one day to the next, as if I had not set up an account. Looking at the identities folder (thanks to one of your threads here) I have four identities, three of which were created within three days last month - how that happened I don't know as I had never been in this folder before. One of these is Main Identity. The fourth one was created more than a year ago, though it is named Main Identity [backed up 27 June 2012]. How do I reinstate the right identity (and contents) and get rid of the others safely? 

Files on my Mac, Where are they?

05. June 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , ,
I have been having HUGE issues with the "Main Identity" and Database. In all this mess I seemed to have lost all my archived email messages that I have save "On my Mac".

I have been saving all my emails on Time Machine, I just do not know where they are and how I can get them back to my new "Main Identity"

Thx Much for any help you can provide.