As a mobile user, I love it that I can also cache other user's shared folders and Public Folder Favorites.

However, some of these users are true packrats and some of these Public Folder Favorites are huge archives. The result is that my ost-file is really large (nearing 20GB) and makes my laptop slow since it doesn't have a high performance SSD drive. I'm also starting to run out of disk space as I only have a 120GB disk in my laptop.

Aside from investing in a fast new disk or telling my colleagues to clean up, what else can I do?

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I’ve configured Outlook with my Outlook.com account and even though my Email and Calendar gets synched just fine, my contacts don’t.

I’ve got plenty of contacts in the People section of Outlook.com but only a few of them actually sync to Outlook.

How can I get all my contacts to sync with Outlook?

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I’m using Outlook.com without an @outlook.com address but an address from my own domain. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to configure that account in Outlook.

I also have an @gmail.com address connected to my Outlook.com account but that fails too.

I can configure it manually as an IMAP account but not as an Exchange account which I need to sync my Contacts and Calendar as well.

How can I configure my Outlook.com account in Outlook?

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I accidentally deleted an email from Outlook which I still need. I have my POP3 account set to keep a copy on the server and the message I need is still there.

How can I tell Outlook to redownload this specific message?

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Looking at backup and restore procedures for Outlook, some instruct to use the Import/Export wizard in Outlook. Others recommend to use the original pst-file and warn that I could lose data otherwise.

What's the difference between an Import and using the old PST directly? What's lost or gained by using either method?

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When adding something in the Notes section of an Appointment, Meeting, Contact or Task item, I noticed that the Format Text tab is completely greyed out and also most of the Insert tab.

I always used to be able to add Rich Text to this field and add pictures and other attachments to it but now it no longer seems possible. The Attach File button actually does seem to work but I can't access the files anymore after attaching.

What is causing this and how can I re-active it all again?

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I sometimes forward messages which I’ve received or a sent as attachments to someone else.

Instead of receiving the attachments that I sent them, they receive them as noname.eml attachments which they cannot open. When they click on it, they only see gibberish.

This doesn’t happen for everyone but mainly for people who are using Gmail, Outlook.com/Hotmail or another web mail account rather than using Outlook.

How can I make sure that they receive the email attachments as it should and that they can read it?

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I regularly save individual emails as msg-file from Outlook into a folder on my computer to more conveniently group it with other related documents.

Now that I’ve switched to the New Outlook, I seem not be able to do that anymore. There is no File command anymore either. This is where the option used to be in Classic Outlook.

Can I no longer save individual emails as msg-files anymore in the New Outlook?

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My Contacts/People folder almost looks like it is sorted randomly. It's a mixture of being sorted by first name and last name.

In the People section in Options, I’ve set it to display in the “First (Middle) Last” and “Last First” format but this did not seem to have any effect at all.

How do I make the sorting order of People consistently?

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When trying to create a backup copy of my pst-file, I get the following error;

"0x80070021: The process cannot access this file because another process
has locked a portion of this file."

Outlook is closed when trying to make a copy of the file so why is it still in use?

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