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General Computing Microsoft Windows
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on how to remove specific email addresses in Outlook Express that are not in the address book?

If I click an initial into the “To” line of an email, all of the people with that initial come up for me to choose which one I want. The problem is everyone I have ever sent an email to with that initial as well as the ones in my address book come up. I may have sent for plants for example or a competition on the radio or whatever so that address is locked in. I now have loads of email addresses which I don’t want and no way can I delete them. I’ve tried to right click and also highlight and delete but nothing works. They aren’t actually in the address book or I would have been able to do it.

Any and all help appreciated.

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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA100978871033.aspx#2

I’ve been asked this one a fair few times, and when moving people to new laptops as the file this is all held in is different location to the .pst

hth,

DT.

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:thumbsup: Thanks for the quick reply… have passed it on and will wait for the outcome?

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ah, whoops - just missed that you said Outlook Express :frowning:

In express, all you can do is reset to start again, by deleting the .nk2 files

DT.

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No problem DT. I was given another link by a friend which highlights the .nk2 files and that you can delete particular files…

His post is as follows:-

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Search Windows for any *.nk2 files, then simply delete the ones you don’t want. These files are stored in a hidden folder, so you may need to enable the Explorer option ‘Show hidden files and folders’ before you can find them.

If i remember correctly (not using OE myself), the path to the folder is something like this:

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%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities{some_SID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

I think you can circumvent any hidden folders setting by simply typing this into the address field of a Windows Explorer window:

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%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities

…and from there the choice of sub-folders should be very limited.

Hopefully this may help others in the future?

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In regular Outlook you just highlight the address you want to delete and hit the Delete button.

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Well thanks for that. Something I wanted to do as well :slight_smile:

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Or you can use this nifty tool for editing nk2 files http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_edit.html