You may need to restart Outlook for this change to take effect.Paste the attachment folder path in the Value Data Click OK to save the value then close the Registry Editor.Right-click on DefaultPath and choose Modify.Right click on Options and create a new string value called DefaultPath.Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options.
To change the default location for saving attachments, you'll need to edit the registry. Instead of changing the folder path, add the folders you use most frequently to the Quick Access list in Windows Explorer. (Note: Outlook will default to the last-used folder until it's closed and restarted.)
You can also change the default folder that opens when you click Browse this PC on Outlook's Attach File menu (Insert Attachment in older versions) but when you make this change, it changes the default folder for open or saving files in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It can't MFA IMAP.Did you know you can change the folder Outlook uses as the default folder to save attachments? policies to manage the mail for users, because they won't.Īnd I haven't even gotten to the authentication limitations of the protocol. You can attach Outlook to Google Mail and have it live forever too, you just need the policies in place to get old mail out of the inbox and into another folder, or deleted. The client itself is dumb and doesn't need to be much. And when you need to sort, search or whatever you're putting that database call on the server where it belongs. they don't have all the mail local, they're just looking at whatever the cache value is configured to use. Outlook hooked to M365 is using Exchange native connectivity, that's basically a tweaked IMAP, and those Outlooks live forever. and it's the simple fact that equipment end users have in front of them simply isn't powerful enough to handle the ludicrous horde of email everyone keeps forever. There's a reason Google is forcing everyone to a web mail client. IMAP itself is simply deficient to the needs of modern mail. Slow or bizarre syncing appears to be a common problem.
He has over 11,600 messages in his Sent folder and I suspect this may have something to do with the slow sync.Īnyway, the problem appears to have resolved itself. Today, my customer told me that after a very long time, the syncing finished and he was able to send and receive messages normally.
We just left is syncing and went about other business. Restarting Outlook or the PC didn't clear the Outbox. Several times, I couldn't re-open Outlook unless I ran Outlook.exe /ResetNavPane. I received my copy of the test message even though it was still sitting in the Outbox after re-opening Outlook. When I opened Outlook, it opened with the original profile and worked perfectly?Īfter deleting many superfluous messages in the Sent folder, it wouldn't send a test message and appeared to be syncing indefinitely. Just to close this off, the problem seemed to just fix itself! I created a new Outlook profile in Control Panel\Mail but didn't correctly set it as the default properly.