How To Dump Your Outlook Temp Folder

Date June 16, 2008 Author By kadmin Category General, Microsoft Exchange

Cannot Create File: photo.jpg

You may find that you can no longer open photo attachments sent by your iPhone.  This is because the Outlook temp folder can not handle more than 100 files of the same name.  It is time to dump your temp folder.  Here is how.

The folder location is stored in one of the following registry keys:

Outlook 97 HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice8.0OutlookSecurity

Outlook 98 HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice8.5OutlookSecurity

Outlook 2000 HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0OutlookSecurity

Outlook 02/XP HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookSecurity

Outlook 2003 HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0OutlookSecurity

Outlook 2007 HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookSecurity

Open the key above and copy and paste the path into they Windows Explorer address bar to open the folder.

Update

You can now download this little program to clean your Outlook Temp Folder:

http://www.howto-outlook.com/products/outlooktempcleaner.htm

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