
It’s really not a good idea to maintain data in folders marked as “This Computer Only” since if the Imap account is deleted, the associated. ost file with the added words “This Computer Only” in the folder description. If the IMAP account is the first email account configured, contact/calendar folders will be added to the underlying associated. Subsequent POP3 accounts added to the profile will not have contact/calendar folders in the associated PST files for the account (assuming that a new PST file is being used for each POP account). POP AccountsĬontact/calendar folders will only be created for the first POP account configured providing that no other email account has already been configured.

These contact/calendar folders become the default contact/calendar folders for the profile regardless of the type (POP3, Imap, Exchange/) of email account being configured. The first email account configured in an Outlook profile will result in a complete set of folders being created in the folder tree which include contact/calendar folders. The focus on this article is on Outlook ‘2013/’2016 Overview of how Outlook contact folders are created A topic of confusion seen frequently relates to contact folders in terms of how many are created, where these are stored and how this integrates with the auto-complete cache.
