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Microsoft Outlook 2007

Empty Deleted Items Folder Upon Exit

SUMMARY: Outlook 2007 can purge the contents of your Deleted Items Folder when exiting.

Microsoft Outlook 2007's "Deleted Items Folder" contains copies of deleted e-mails, tasks, notes, and other items. This way you can easily retrieve information you may have accidentally removed.

Depending on your usage, the contents of this folder may grow to be quite large, taking up much hard drive space. If you forget to occasionally purge its contents, you can have Outlook do so for you automatically.

1. Select "Tools" - "Options".

2. The "Options" multi-tabbed dialog box appears. Click the "Other" tab.

3. Underneath "General", check "Empty the Deleted Items folder upon exiting".

4. Click "OK" to close the dialog box.

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1. David-G (01/27/2010 06:08:34)

I have this unchecked but when I exit/close Outlook 2007 and then re-open all email is gone in the deleted items folder. I am using Windows 7 Professional, same happens with Vista 64bit business.

Connected to Exchange 2007. Exchange is configured so I can recover email but this is not what I want to do.

Is there a registry edit that I can use in Windows 7 to force disable of this?