Dear SpiceRex: Loyalty and Guilt over Job Possibilities Spiceworks Originals.If you want to know where they are, run the following - logged in as (or su'd to) the user in question, via the Terminal: The temp folders are in standardized (by the OS) locations. There's nothing random about an OS simply because you're unfamiliar with it's lower-level architecture and workings. BTW, Apple only told me about the 1st option after I noticed the strange path in the Properties description (General). It took me 4 hours to find my file last night and a long call with Apple. TRICK: Now that you have Outlook Temp directory open you can drag it to the Favorites Side bar and you will always have access. Open and save it int eh correct location. Open Word (or whatever program your file needs)Ĭlick on Box showing the current folder (TOP middle of screen). This will trigger Outlook Temp to appear in your "recents" listing. Open a new email attachment in Outlook and save it to Outlook Temp. IF the above does not work then do the following: You need to hunt as there is no rhyme nor reason for where they are located. They are s tired in the following location (you have to hunt in each subfolder for your file as they will not show in Finder).
Outlook relies upon MAC OS to store temp files and MAC does this in a weird and almost random way. Thanks in advance for any suggestions for file retrieval. I’d like to know if it’s even possible to access the files in thatįolder before I even start the process of searching our backups to find the file. There were the Word document minutes taken yesterday. However, when she went to access the file the next day, it said you do not haveĪccess to the folder and the files are gone.
Since it was the last folder she used, it defaulted to that folder. She must have at some point saved a file in the Outlook Temp folder and
She did a save, not looking at what folder it was going Paste the contents of the clipboard into any explorer window or into the aforementioned Run dialog box to go directly to the OLK folder location.Our Admin Assistant opened a Word 2016 and createdĪ new file. Double click this value and copy its contents to the clipboard.
Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then software and so on using the matching entry above for your version of Office until you see the OutlookSecureTempFolder string value. Click Start->Run and enter regedit, then hit enter to start the registry editor. So, to find that OLK folder on your system: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0OutlookSecurity HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookSecurity HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0OutlookSecurity HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookSecurity HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0OutlookSecurity HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice8.5OutlookSecurity HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice8.0OutlookSecurity Here is a list of versions of Microsoft Office and the corresponding registry entry location of the OutlookSecureTempFolder string value that will reveal the OLK folder location: Office Version Depending on your version of Office, a registry key will reveal the exact path of this folder.
The location of the temporary files location Outlook uses to store files when you double-click an attachment (also known as the OLK folder) is different on each windows system.