Outlook For Mac 2011 Folder Contains Excess Whitespace



In our organization we often send text based hyperlinks to folders and files we work on. Most of the time I just copy the path out of Explorer and insert it into the message body and put file:// if front of it so that Outlook will automatically create a link out of it.

Nov 08, 2012 11:14 3 VERYSI1.TXT Very Silly File Name.txt 1 File(s) 3 bytes 2 Dir(s) 297,395,978,240 bytes free. D: temp As you can see the 8.3 file name is VERYSI1.TXT. Admittedly the long file name I created does not have a space at the end but you can see what I mean and it would work the same way.

This works great except if the file or foldername contains spaces. Then it breaks the hyperlink at the first space.

How can I make Outlook to create a link including spaces? Renaming the files and folders is not an option to us.

For Outlook 2010 and later versions: Open Outlook. On the Home tab, click New Items, and under More Items click Post in This Folder. On the Format Text tab, click As HTML or click As Rich Text in the Format section. For Outlook 2007 or earlier versions: Open Outlook. On the File menu, click New, and then click Post in This Folder. The first thing I decided to do was to create a file with a leading space in it. I opened Windows File Explorer, and created a new text file with 10 leading spaces. This is shown in the image that follows. But when I pressed ENTER, it seems that Windows Explorer stripped out the leading spaces. This is shown in the image that follows. Public folders are designed for shared access and provide an easy and effective way to collect, organize, and share information with other people in your workgroup or organization. Public folders help organize content in a deep hierarchy that's easy to browse. Users will see the full hierarchy in Outlook, which makes it easy for them to browse for the content they're interested in. File://c: folder with spaces file with spaces.doc After pressing ENTER or typing a space behind the , Outlook will automatically turn it into a link. This works for all message formats (Plain Text, HTML and Rich Text). Note: If Outlook doesn’t automatically create links for you in Plain Text messages see; No Hyperlinks in Plain Text anymore.

You can indicate the beginning and the end of the link by placing it between < and >. Your typed linked will then look something like this;
<file://c:folder with spacesfile with spaces.doc>

After pressing ENTER or typing a space behind the >, Outlook will automatically turn it into a link. This works for all message formats (Plain Text, HTML and Rich Text).

Note: If Outlook doesn’t automatically create links for you in Plain Text messages see; No Hyperlinks in Plain Text anymore

Recently I have been getting warning in my Outlook saying the mailbox is full, even after clearing and archiving most of the older emails. After running the Mailbox Cleanup tool in Outlook and looking through the size of each folders, I noticed the 3 folders which are having too many emails but I cannot see those folders in the Outlook thus not able to clear those unwanted mails. The folder names I found in the Mailbox Cleanup are as follows:

  • Sync Issues
  • Sync IssuesConflicts
  • Sync IssuesLocal Failures
  • Sync IssuesServer Failures (it appears sometimes appear)

I finally figured out how to see these folders and take some action on those conflict emails. Here is how you can do that.

Before I explain how to view these folders, you may want to know how you can see if these 3 folders (sometimes 4, including Server Failures) really contain any items. To do that:

In Outlook 2010:

Step 1: Click on File >>> Cleanup Tools >>> Mailbox Cleanup…

Step 2: Click on View Mailbox Size… and scroll through each folders and see how many items are in Sync Issues, Sync IssuesConflicts, Sync IssuesLocal Failures and Sync IssuesServer Failures folders.

In Outlook 2007:

Step 1: Click on Tools >>> Mailbox Cleanup…

Step 2: Click on View Mailbox Size… and scroll through each folders and see how many items are in Sync Issues, Sync IssuesConflicts, Sync IssuesLocal Failures and Sync IssuesServer Failures folders.

Outlook For Mac 2011 Folder Contains Excess Whitespace Failure

Let’s now see how we can make Sync Issues, Sync IssuesConflicts, Sync IssuesLocal Failures, Sync IssuesServer Failures folders visible in Outlook.

Viewing Sync Issues, Conflicts, Local Failures and Server Failures folders in Outlook

As I mentioned earlier, in most cases, we may not be able to view the folders I mentioned earlier

(Sync Issues, Conflicts, Local Failures and Server Failures). These are system folders created by Outlook just like Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts, etc. and cannot be deleted (deleting the folder itself) from Outlook. But we can view these folders and take actions like delete, move, etc. on the items inside these folders. To view these folders, click on Folder List icon appearing at the bottom of your navigation pane.

If you can’t see that:

Right click on the bottom of the navigation pane >>> Navigation pane options… >>> Tick Folder List (You can also try <CTRL + 6>).

Outlook For Mac 2011 Folder Contains Excess Whitespace Failure

Once you do that, you will be able to see all the folders inside your mailbox including Sync Issues, Sync IssuesConflicts, Sync IssuesLocal Failures and Sync IssuesServer Failures folders.

You can now review these items and delete from these folders. Before you delete these items, you may want to consult your company policies and other factors.

Please note that, as I said, you won’t be able to delete these folders itself, but only the items inside these folders.

Some notes on Sync Issues, Conflicts, Local Failures, Server Failures folders and Items

Mac

Sync Issues: This folder contains all the synchronization logs that would help you troubleshoot all kinds of email synchronization errors, for example, you are able to see certain emails from Outlook Web Access (OWA) but not from your Outlook.

Sync IssuesConflicts: Contains multiple copies of conflicting emails.

Sync IssuesLocal Failures: Contains items that are not updated on the server, for e.g. you updated an item in your outlook, but the changes are not updated in server due to some reasons.

Sync IssuesServer Failures: Contains items that are failed to synchronize from your Exchange mailbox. Those items which Outlook cannot synchronize from the server are moved to this folder.

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