All depends on the method that you used to switched your default folders
around. As long as you restarted Outlook and have no longer an account
associated with a pst-file, you can delete any folder accept for the Search
Folders and Deleted Items folder.
Your rules got dropped by the way you switched your folders around.
Apparently your method did not allow the rules to be transferred to the new
default folder set.
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"Timothy Michel" <TimothyMichel DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I accidentally set a folder I called "Sorted Items" as default and then
> changed the default back to the original default folder which I called
> "Timothys Folders". Everything seemed to be OK except two things: One
> there
> were now a "Deleted Items", "Inbox", "Junk E-mail", "Outbox", "Sent
> Items",
> and "Search Folders" that I don't want in the "Sorted Items" folder and
> the
> Delete selection is grayed for all of them in the right click menu as well
> as
> in the Edit menu. How do I get rid of these extra system folders from my
> "Sorted Items" folder that I created solely for organizing my emails into
> categories?
>
> The second thing that happened is that all my Rules that I spent hours
> creating disappeared. How do I keep Outlook from arbitrarily dissing my
> Rules?
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