Where does outlook save its temporary files

When you open an attachment directly in Outlook, a temporary copy of the file is created in the Outlook Secure Temp folder. When you close the file and its email, the temporary file stays there. When you close Outlook, the temporary file should disappear. One of mine contains 10 files dated since Dec so perhaps Outlook does not clean them out properly every time or perhaps each file represents an occasion on which Outlook or my OS crashed while a file was open.

Perhaps this is how this "folder" can get full. I have been running some tests. As I understand it, Outlook invokes the installed antimalware application to scan the attachment before it opens. However, my antimalware application creates logs of its scans [even scans of individual files] and no entries have been made for the attachments I have been testing. So I am going to stick with my existing procedure for attachments This thread is only of use to Office users rather than general Windows users so I asked a Moderator to move it to the Office forum.

Please would you rename this thread Finding Outlook temporary folder for email attachments so that it can get found in searches other users make when they are looking into this topic? You can click on the Edit button underneath your question and then you can alter its title. I am having trouble finding a temp folder in Windows 7 Explorer. The directory is: [ Moderator Edit: Moved from the Windows forum ].

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Where Does Outlook Store Emails? Open the File menu and select Account Settings. Share with:. Other things you might find interesting:. Outlook and Gmail side-by-side: An email provider comparison. How to schedule your emails in Outlook. Reduce push-notifications with saving clients as VIPs in Outlook. Comments N. A colleague of mine is using Outlook He received a meeting invite which containted an Excel file in it, he opened the excel file and worked on it for 2 hours then clicked SAVE at the top thinking it would be saved the next time he opened that excel file from the email he got, it reverted back to the original files I told him to check his temporary internet files but he did and didn't find the newly saved file what else to do to recover this files or where else could it be?

Mushkins Golden Member. Feb 11, 1, 0 0. Fardringle Diamond Member. Oct 23, 9, Fardringle said:. Mushkins said:. IMO it's about time the Save button was removed and they strictly leave Save As and let autosaving take care of the old Save functionality.

People should be more aware of where they're putting their files. Mar 2, 1, 1 No problem, frankly i'm surprised I dont hear about the same issue a million billion times a day from how often I see people open things right from their email and just start pounding away.

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