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Old 02-17-2023, 11:40 AM
Elephant#59 Elephant#59 is offline Error message: Messages in Outbox not yet sent...? (Outlook2016) Windows 10 Error message: Messages in Outbox not yet sent...? (Outlook2016) Office 2016
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Dear forum members,

This is my first post on this forum.

As shown in my subject, I've been getting this message "recently"(?) for the last few weeks (see attachments).
Some prior knowledge about my Outlook settings may be necessary, I think.
I have one "Inbox", one "Outbox", one "Drafts" etc. and 3 groups and 5 email addresses:
- group#1: has 2 email addresses;
- group#2: has the other 3 email addresses;
- group#3: has all email addresses (5x).
- archiving is OFF since the beginning.

So, all new emails (from all email addresses) end up in one "Inbox".
And when I send emails, they all go through the one "Outbox" and end up in the one "Sent Items" folder.

Now, my "Outbox" is completely EMPTY and the "Sent Items" folder just shows previously sent emails....

Where does that message come from or rather: why do I get that message when there are apparently NO emails to be sent?!
Aside from the 5 email addresses provided by my ISP, I also have some free email addresses from Microsoft and Gmail. Don't know if that's an issue...?!

My specs are:
- Windows 10 Pro (22H2) ► up-to-date
- Microsoft Office 2016 ► up-to-date
- 16GB RAM
- CPU Intel i7-7700 @ 3.60GHz

All tips & tricks are very welcome!
Many thanks in advance.
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Old 02-21-2023, 12:39 PM
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Well, my issue seems to be resolved, but in a totally other and weird way....!?!
I am not sure how to explain it, but I will give it a try.

In the default folder for Outlook-datafiles I assumed that only my main default datafile was stored.... nothing strange about that.
Only somehow I also had 4 other Outlook-datafiles with the names of the 4 email addresses I have.... but they were EMPTY datafiles (see attachment #1).

I added one of them in my Outlook client and saw that it was empty, only the default folders, like when you start from scratch, were present.
After I did that I (still) got the 'error'-message. For the record, after starting-up Outlook it seems that at least some of the other datafiles are activated?? (see attachment #2).

When I removed the extra datafile from the Outlook client and moved the other datafiles to a 'Backup'-folder I didn't encounter the 'error'-message anymore (see attachment #3).

I don't know how those empty datafiles appeared in that folder, I don't remember ever creating them, let alone in the last 3-4 months.
I also don't believe that they appeared by magic or by some weird error caused by Outlook?
That part remains a mystery for now, but at least I am not bothered anymore by the annoying 'error'-message.

Thanks for trying to help me and giving me more insight in Outlook, very much appreciated! My issue is SOLVED, thanks.
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