Outlook 2016 Resetting Profile Download To Fix

But Outlook 2016 has removed this feature, claiming it does all this automatically and there should never be a need for rebuilding manually.

Well I ended up deleting the profile and re-adding it, which did solve the problem.

Its just slightly less inconvenient as I need the user to enter their password, and signature is lost, etc.

This will help reduce time spent on rebuilding the database for issues that truly are not caused by database problems, thus a database rebuild is not necessary.

We had a user whose profile was corrupted and had archived mail locally on their computer.

And for whatever reason Outlook would not detect there was an issue and offer to rebuild the profile.

LibraryGroup ContainersUBF8T346G9.OfficeOutlookOutlook 15 ProfilesMain ProfileData and deleting the Outlook.sqllite file.

This forced Outlook to detect an issue and do an auto rebuild.

Not exactly an elegant solution, but all of his archived mail was brought over with the rebuild.

If anyone goes this route, make sure you backup the Main Profile folder, just in case.

After following these instructions, the missing folders reappeared as sub-folders in the Inbox folder within On My Computer.

You rock, michaelhof Minor correction - the file I deleted is named Outlook.sqlite not Outlook.sqllite.

Outlook 2016 Resetting Profile Download To Fix

I went to Microsofts support page and discovered that they have posted an Outlook Search Repair tool that you can download to fix the problem.

I ran it and it immediately restored my ability to search all emails.

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