but outlook is crashing and even a rebuild didn't fix it?
so you just created an entirely fresh identity, which fixed the crashing (finally) - but you really don't want to have to try to remember how all those smart folders were built?
try this:
- outlook stuff is stored here: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/
- within that, there's: Main Identity/Data Records/Saved Searches/
- yep; smart folders are in there
- move the "Office 2011 Identities" dir/folder somewhere for safe-keeping
- fire up outlook again, enter your account info & let it start downloading stuff
- it may help to quit here; the rebuild below may take less time
- it may help to run "Microsoft Database Utility" & let it kill the daemon (then cancel the rebuild)
- copy the "Saved Searches" dir from your saved copy, over the fresh copy
- run "Microsoft Database Utility", do a rebuild, and let it complete (this appears required)
after i did this, the next time i opened outlook, my smart folders were there; hope this works for you
(now i just have to wait for spotlight to finish indexing the rebuild :/ to confirm that they actually work - though at least the definitions are visible now)
notes:
- geez; a whole lot of mail showed up in different places; lots of cleanup needed :/
- i copied my own smart folders; might also work for copying to other identities
- i'm on outlook 2011, on os x 10.10 (yosemite); may or may not apply to others
- i've got the common config of a single "identity"; this procedure resets _all_ idenities
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ugh; not quite that simple:
apparently folder references are somewhat fluid :/ so the folder that a "smart folder" acts on, may be wrong :/
oh well; at least i can see that other search steps, and recreate from that, instead of hoping to remember
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