Delete Microsoft Outlook Temp Files Mac

  

If you’re using Outlook 2011 on your Mac, there will be times when you need to delete an old or unused email account. Here’s how to do it.

To delete the cache files, press and hold the Shift key while selecting all of the files. Then press the Delete key, or right-click the highlighted files and select Delete. Outlook automatically makes new cache files when you open Outlook.

The other day I showed you how to add Windows Live Mail via POP3 to Outlook Mac 2011. Now that you know how to add an account, what about removing one?

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  1. This will cause the Outlook SecureTemp folder to open. Now click Edit Select All to highlight everything in this folder and then press the Delete key. If you have any questions about this information or any continued difficulty, please submit a ticket to Technical Support. Related Article: The.
  2. The present blog highlights the way as how to unhide Outlook temporary folder on Mac systems. The blog shall prove to be very useful for all those Apple Macintosh users who have the requirement to recover hidden files/documents from Outlook 2011, also called Outlook for Mac.
  3. When exiting (or when Outlook closes unexpectedly) while email attachments are open, the attachments remain in the 'Outlook Secure Temporary File' folder. (Even if the attachments are closed.) When you open the attachment from the Reading pane, you do not receive a prompt to save changes when you exit Outlook.
  4. Aug 17, 2018  Again, do not attempt to manually modify anything and do not delete any files found in the Mac OS system temp folders. If you somehow screw up and delete a critical system file or directory, you’ll have to follow these instructions to restore deleted system files.

First, launch Outlook Mac 2011. From the toolbar click Outlook >> Preferences.

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Outlook Preferences opens. In the Personal Settings column click on Accounts.

The Accounts screen comes up. This will list each of the email accounts you have set up in Outlook. Here I just have one, but highlight the one you want to delete in the left panel. Then at the bottom click the minus button to deleted the selected account.

If you want to save your emails, or delete them, click the Advanced button on the Accounts screen.

Then select if you want to have your emails deleted from the server after a certain amount of time or not at all.

After deciding on what to do with your existing emails click Delete on the verification message.

After that you’re brought to the Add an Account screen. That’s all there is to it. Now you can add your new email address or just close out of this screen.

Hi,

As far as I know there's only the manual way because mac lacks a lot of features. (we don't have many mac users so take this with a grain of salt)

If you go into finder and the “GO” drop down menu; Type: ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Outlook Temp and delete the files there that should

(This should be the outlook temp location for outlook files. Tested on a 2015 iMac)

Hope that helps.

If not Microsoft states:

Outlook 2016 for Mac caches your mail items in a profile in your home folder at the following location:
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~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles

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Outlook for Mac 2011 caches your mail items in an identity in your home folder at the following location:

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~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities

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