Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Outlook, I don’t have contacts I have type ahead!

Wow, I find that I treat type ahead like my personal address book.  Recently we changed domain (myriad-it.com to fusion5.com) and found that my type ahead seriously did not know what was going on.

The information is stored in a binary file here for 2010 and above, thanks https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/email/understanding-outlooks-autocomplete-cache-nk2/ 

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache

Some more googling found this:  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2199226

download this cool app to actually turn the binary file into something that is readable.

https://github.com/stephenegriffin/mfcmapi/releases/tag/17.0.17099.01

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Run it

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Session-Logon

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Double click your mailbox

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Right click inbox under the IPM_SUBTREE

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Locate auto complete in the subject, choose export message

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Name it

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The open a command line:

cat the xml file through findstr and you’ll get a list – job done.  All of the email addresses in type ahead.  Now delete your cache.

or  type TypeAhead.xml | findstr /c:"szEmail" > emails.txt

To delete the cache in modern outlook

file–>options

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The choose mail

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Empty type ahead!

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