When I'm backing up my pst-file I get an error that tells me that there isn't enough room on the external drive to back up the file.
This cannot be correct; the file is listed as being only about 4.2 GB, and the external drive I'm trying to back it up to has over 31 GB of free space!
Any clue as to what's going on here?
I used to have a POP3 account for which I always had to backup the pst-file and I had no issues with restoring it when I needed it.
Now that I have switched to Outlook.com, I no longer have a pst-file but an ost-file.
I tried opening the ost-file, to test whether I could restore it, but Outlook doesn’t let me and expects a pst-file.
I’m using Outlook on multiple computers and even though my emails sync beautifully between all my devices, my email Signatures do not.
While I could back them up and restore them manually onto another computer after each change, surely in the age of Cloud Based Computing there must be a better approach for this.
How can I synchronize my email Signatures between computers?
I’ve configured my Outlook.com account with multiple aliases. When I use the web based version of Outlook.com, I can successfully send out an email with one of my alias addresses.
However, when I specify an alias address in Outlook, it still only sends from my primary address.
How can I send out an email with one of my alias addresses for my Outlook.com account in Outlook?
Recently, I’m getting more an more spam in my Inbox with no email address.
The From field only shows a name but no email address. Also, when I hover over the name or right click on it, it doesn’t open a Contact Card with more info.
Right clicking on the message in the message list doesn’t allow me to block it either.
How can I block this new type of spam?
Lately I've been receiving empty emails, some even don't have a From, To or Subject field either. I'm not sure if these are just spam messages or if I simply no longer can see the message content.
How can I find that out and when they are spam messages, how can I block them?
When clicking on the Automatic Replies (Out of Office) button, I get the following error:
Your automatic reply settings cannot be displayed, because the server is currently unavailable. Try again later.
I’m pretty sure that the server is available since I can still send and receive emails.
How do I correct this error so I can turn the OOF on and off again via Outlook?
Sometimes I receive emails which are "funny forwards" and I'd like to pass them on to others as well.
Sadly, most of the time the constant forwarding has really messed up the formatting and in my view it negatively affects the "fun factor" of it as well.
How can I efficiently clean up the email upon forwarding?
When I reply to a somewhat longer email, I find myself scrolling quite a lot between the original message at the bottom and then back up to where I left off writing my reply message.
While you could open the message in its own window and position and resize it in such a way that it sits nicely next to your compose screen so you can read them both, it is a somewhat cumbersome solution.
Did you know that you could split your message compose window directly from within Outlook?
I'm sorting my contacts in a list view (Phone List) instead of using the Business Cards view. With the Business Card view there is an alphabetic index on the right side which allows you to easily jump to contacts starting with that letter.
This index is not available in the Phone List view nor does typing the first letter of a name bring me to that contact (like it does in Explorer), instead it starts overwriting a selected name or adds a new contact.
Is there any method in making the index available in the Phone List view as well or make it jump through a contact by typing?
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