Revert back to showing the name given to the PST File in the side panel instead of just "Outlook Data File".
Revert back to showing the name given to the PST File in the side panel instead of just "Outlook Data File".
I organize my mail by month. PST files created since Office 2019 just show "Outlook Data File" in the side panel. PST files created in earlier version show the name of the PST file. e.g. 2018-08 There appears no way to change this. I know if shows the name at the top of the screen but it is a pain to click on each folder to find the folder I need.
Please revert back.
Andrew Hubbard
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Anonymous
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I found a way to achive this: When the data file is available in your outlook, go to the account settings dialog. In there you have multiple tabs e.g. E-mail, data files, RSS Feeds, SHarepoint lists,...
On the data files tab, select the data file you want to see with a name. Open its settings dialog and you are able to change the name displayed. That's actually a display name, not the file name. The default value is "Outlook Data File".
I think it's good to have another display name then the filename but it's unfortunate Outlook is hiding this option behind so many dialogs. For example, you can see the "Outlook Data File" text, when you right click the data file in you usual folder tree and open its setting dialog but the text field is grayed out so it's not possible to change the value directly. Also it would be nice if Outlook asks you to enter a display name when creating a data file but as it looks to me that's currently not done. Instead it only puts in the default text.
So Microsoft - small improvement but easy to solve I think!
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Anonymous
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"Outlook Date File" - that's telling me nothing! And it's telling me nothing 5 times as I use 5 files to get mails out of my way / search results yet keeping them for reference.
Please Outlook, show me Names!
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Crystal Stanesic
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When I open Data Files in Outlook they no longer show the File Name just shows "Outlook Date File".
Can you please fix so that it shows the date file name when it is opened in Outlook?
