Sometimes you would like to know where you have an email located in Microsoft Outlook. If you have a lot of folders, this can be a common problem. Fortunately, you can find the folder location for any email using these steps.
- Open Outlook and search for the message using the quick search box located toward the upper-right portion of the window. When searching, be sure that “All Outlook Items” is selected in the drop-down box.
- Once you press “Enter” to submit your search, there should be an “In Folder” field that will tell you which folder the email is located in.
If you do not have this field perform these steps:
- Select the “View” tab.
- Select “Add Columns“.
- From the “Select available columns from:” drop-down menu, select “All Mail fields“.
- Select “In Folder” then select “Add” to add it.
David says
A brand new folder called Bulk Emails appeared form nowhere. It fills up with spam and other junk. I want to remove it but Microsoft has prevented it from being removed. Add this to the millions of other complaints.
James Wilton says
Come on Microsoft, just show the file path, including the email account:
i.e. \\[email protected]\inbox\sorted\otherwise lost forever
Victoria MacDonald says
Absolutely useless. Microsoft file explorer can find the exact location with a folder address. This isn’t a new concept for Microsoft.
Gubbs says
As pointed out by previous posters, the ‘In Folder’ column is useless if the folder is nested more than once from the root folder – it should show the entire path (like windows explore search). Didn’t Microsoft just get a tax break? Maybe they can take a little of that money and make this function a little more usefull.
Gregory Kielczewski says
No, it doesn’t help at all, because it “explains” obvious and avoid difficult. I have hundreds of folder in Outlook. Sometimes they change position in the folder structure, or possibly I inadvertently and unconsciously move them to a new place. At this moment I am in trouble. Microsoft does not provide any tool to locate such “lost” files, or possibly I have not discovered such a tool. When I search for files in a “lost” folder Outlook show them, and even tell me in which folder they are. The problem is that I have no idea what is the location of the folder.
Stephen says
I can find the “in folder” but I cannot locate the folder itself.