How to reset Outlook Folder Names with resetfoldernames

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1. Dear Rudy. Sorry never received a message about your comment. Yes I want to delete some duplicate folders. Junk, Spam, Drafts & Sent are duplicates in English.

2. Ruud, unrelated question but when googling for the answer for my problem, your website showed up so here it goes:
   I am trying to import PST files that contains slashed (/ and \) in their foldernames. Obviously, IMAP servers don’t like this. So far I have been manually removing the slashes, but do you know of a quicker, more automated way? I’ve tried Reliefjet Essentials but can;t find the exact tool, or maybe a VB script? Or any other (free or paid) program that can do this? I don’t think I’m the only one with this issue, so perheps there’s a nifty utility out there that can do the trick.

   Alvast bedankt, collega!

   • We could use VBA for this. I don’t have a lot of experience with VBA, but the VBA code below seems to do the trick:

     ' based on https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/batch-find-replace-specific-words-outlook-folder-names/
     Public strFind, strReplace As String
     
     Private Sub FindReplaceCharacterinFolderNames()
         Dim objFolders As Outlook.Folders
         Dim objFolder As Outlook.Folder
      
         Set objFolders = Outlook.Application.Session.Folders
      
         'String to find
         strFind = "/"
         
         'Replace with
         strReplace = "-"
      
         'Go through each folder
         For Each objFolder In objFolders
             Call ProcessFolders(objFolder)
         Next
      
         MsgBox "Renaming folders completed", vbExclamation, "Renaming Folders"
     End Sub
      
     Private Sub ProcessFolders(ByVal objCurrentFolder As Outlook.Folder)
         Dim objSubfolder As Outlook.Folder
      
         On Error Resume Next
         If InStr(LCase(objCurrentFolder.Name), LCase(strFind)) > 0 Then
            'Find and replace the specific character
            objCurrentFolder.Name = Replace(LCase(objCurrentFolder.Name), LCase(strFind), strReplace)
         End If
      
         'Process all folders recursively
         If objCurrentFolder.Folders.Count > 0 Then
            For Each objSubfolder In objCurrentFolder.Folders
                Call ProcessFolders(objSubfolder)
            Next
         End If
     End Sub
     

     • Thanks, that might just do the trick!
       Abbe

3. Your solution does not work, when I rename the folders to change the language to Spanish, then I open Outlook and the folders appear again, but now in Spanish and English, that is, it duplicates them in two languages. This is what the person tells you in his comment above (I already changed the names but I duplicated the folders, how do I delete them?) This solution doesn’t work.

   • I just tested the steps again, changing the language from English to Dutch and back again. And it works perfectly fine here. Both methods, using the resetfoldername switch and manually changing the names.

     Which method did you use, manually or the resetfoldername switch? And did you change the preferred language in the Outlook options before renaming the folders?

4. To make it more clear I have 4 folders Junk, Spam, Drafts & Sent. I also have their equivalent in Dutch. Which I want tot keep of course as I have an (official) version of Office 2021 and it’s outlook part. I can not delete either one of them in Outlook. The delete option is greyed out. I think it originates from loading backups in Outlook. Due to ransomware I had to do this again. And I now want to cleanup and look for a proper backup solution as this takes me already 4 days to restore everything ;). I hope there is a solution

5. Yes because I can not rename them. Ans I already have the appropriate folders in Dutch

6. Hi Ruud, I tried all of the above steps and folder names keep coming back. Even if I delete them. I can delete them in the tool. However they will be in the “prullenbak” folder when I start up outlook again. Is there a way to erase them for good? Kind regards, Maarten

   • This article is about renaming folders, you want to completely delete them?