How to Remove a Duplicate Personal Folders PST File?

To remove duplicate personal folders PST file, you need to have an email account which you use might be in an updated version of MS Outlook. You might be having different kinds of folders.

Personal Folders: It might happen that you have more than one folder displaying as Personal Folders in your Folder List. The default name of the .pst file that you see in the Folder List is Personal Folders.

Two Personal Folders: If you have not given a display name to your .pst file, you might view two Personal Folders. Now, to prevent further confusion, it would be better to modify the display name. If you do not want duplicate Personal Folders and want that no new items are being sent to it, you can remove it from the Folder List.

Duplicate Personal Folders: You can keep the data in duplicate Personal folders but only as backup. You can rename this duplicate Personal folder. For that, you need to see in the "Change the display name for a .pst file" section, whether the folders that you are planning to remove contain no new items in them. In this way, you can have more than one PST file but your messages are send to only one .pst file. Don’t remove the wrong files, if you have more new items. You can remove a duplicate Personal Folders file but the duplicate Personal folders remove the folder from list only; in .pst file, it will remain like this on your hard disk.

How to Remove Folder from Folder List? To remove folder from Folder List, you need to perform the following steps:

    1. First, click ‘Email Accounts’ on the Tools menu

    2. Then, click “View” or change existing e-mail accounts

    3. Click “Next”

    4. In the new delivered e-mail to the following location list, choose the location where new files to be delivered. If you don’t choose the location for your .pst file, you might see two entries for Personal Folders files. Select the one out of two that is not highlighted. When you click the arrow to show the list of files, click the second Personal Folders entry in the list.

    5. Click “Finish”

    6. Exit and then restart Outlook

How to Change the Display Name for .pst File? To Change the display name for a .pst file, you need to follow the below mentioned step-by-step process:

    1. In the Navigation Pane, first right-click ‘Personal Folders’

    2. Then click ‘Properties’ for "Personal Folders"

    3. Then click ‘Advanced’

    4. Now, in the Name box, type a name that is meaningful to you, such as Old Outlook.

    5. Change the name of the folder, but make sure that you do not change the file name of the .pst file.

    6. In the Filename box, you can also see where the .pst file is stored

    7.Click OK twice and you see a top-level folder called Old Outlook in the Folder List in the Navigation Pane

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