Repeat loading hotmail into Outlook
Does anyone have any suggestions on what wrong Outlook is with hotmail account?I use Norton Ghost to restore image to recover my Window XP, after I recover my window and open Outlook, it reloads email from hotmail account into Outlook again and again, so I get so many copy of emails.Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this issue?Thanks in advance for any suggestionsEric
July 13th, 2010 6:04pm

How are you accessing the Hotmail account, with the Outlook Hotmail Connector or with a POP account?Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]------------------------------If a reply helps, please vote it as helpful. If a reply solves the issue, please mark it as an answer.
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July 13th, 2010 10:29pm

I setup hotmail based on following instruction:http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/03/27/how-to-configure-hotmail-pop3-access-in-outlook/Do you have any suggestions?Thanks in advance for any suggestions
July 14th, 2010 1:02am

Set your email account using Outlook connector and check if it helps. To do this,1. Click Start->open Outlook and remove the email account. Note: ensure that you remember the user name and password for your email account.2. Close Outlook.3. Download the latest version of Outlook connectorhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=39db2b89-af2e-41f9-a175-f93e1377959f&displaylang=en4. Open Outlook.5. Click on the Outlook connector tab at the top and click Add account.6. Enter the required information and click ok.7. Close and open Outlook.8. It will set up a different folder which will contain all the mails, calendar, contacts information Ruchi Bisht
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July 14th, 2010 6:35am

Do I need to remove all existing loaded emails with hotmail folder?Once the hotmail account has been setup, and it will reload all emails from hotmail account into Outlook.Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
July 14th, 2010 8:35am

No, you need not remove the existing mail folders since your webmail does not have all that information. Once you set up the account using the Outlook connector on both computers, it will start retaining the mail on the webmail as well as both Outlook.Your old mails and old subfolders are in existing mail folders as it is already been downloaded from webmail. Once you complete setting up the account, drag and drop all the email from the old folder to newly created folder and then try removing it. Ruchi Bisht
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July 14th, 2010 2:43pm

My existing folders already contain duplicated emails, to avoid my headache to clear it up.If I delete all emails within folders completely, but will Outlook re-load all emails into my Inbox?and I don't need to handle the duplicated emails issues?Does anyone have any suggestions?Thanks everyone very much for any suggestions
July 14th, 2010 4:32pm

It sounds like you have your account configured to leave messages on the server. When you restored your disk image, you, in essence, created a new mail profile. The information Outlook uses to keep track of what messages have been downloaded so far was destroyed and so Outlook downloaded the messages again because, as far as it was concerned, it had never seen them before. This will happen any time you create a new mail profile.You have a few ways to address the problem. The simplest is to simply allow Outlook to redownload everything and them use a mail duplicate remover (see this: Duplicate Remover Tools for Microsoft Outlook)to remove the duplicates. Another is to log into Hotmail with your web browser, create a new server-side folder, then move all of the old messages in Inbox into that new folder so that Outlook can't see it and download it again. A third way is to create a new PST, make it the delivery location, allow the messages to download into that new PST, then make the old PST the delivery location again and remove the added PST containing the dupes.Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]------------------------------If a reply helps, please vote it as helpful. If a reply solves the issue, please mark it as an answer.
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July 15th, 2010 10:40pm

I only restore image for window system on C drive, when I use Outlook Express, I set the email folder directory under D drive, so whenever I restore C drive image, it would not affect Outlook Express account, and there is no duplicated email issue. However, when I setup the email folder directory for Microsoft Outlook under D Drive, the issue of duplicated emails occur, I would try Outlook connector on this weekend to see whether this issue is solved or not. I have already set email folder under D drive for Microsoft Outlook, which should not create a new mail profile after restore window system image for C drive. Do I miss anything when I redirect email folder into D drive? which hotmail still recognizes a new mail profile in C drive after I restore the image.Does anyone have any suggestions?Thanks everyone very much for any suggestions
July 16th, 2010 3:07am

Outlook Express? If you're using Outlook Express you posted in the wrong forum. Outlook and Outlook Express are not the same thing. I'll move your thread to the correct forum, which is http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpnetwork/threads. The answers I gave apply to Outlook, not Outlook Express.Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]------------------------------If a reply helps, please vote it as helpful. If a reply solves the issue, please mark it as an answer.
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July 16th, 2010 4:24pm

Please read my whole message before moving my thread to the other forum.Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
July 16th, 2010 6:48pm

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