create a folder you dont want synced, like 2016, right click the top folder for the mail box, select imap folders, click query to populate the folders, unsubscribe the 2016 folder
then go back into outlook and move the emails out of the subscribed folders into the 2016 unsubscribed folder, should empty the server folder but not sync them back up, just make sure the folder that was emptied is completely synced before closing outlook or youll end up mussing up the world marty will only be half gone from the picture On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:03 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm < [email protected]> wrote: > its the syncronize settings where you check and uncheck, what version of > outlook though? 2016 does some funky stuff to imap folders > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I remember in Outlook Express you could choose whether a folder was local >> or server based. For example, you could make your Deleted, Sent or Junk >> folder local, or you could create a 2015 folder to save last year’s emails >> and make it local. If you changed a folder from server based to local, it >> would download all the messages from the server to the local folder. In >> fact, this was quite useful when for moving folders between servers, you >> could make the folder local, change the server settings, then make it >> server based again. >> >> >> >> I am trying to advise a customer how to do this in Outlook, and I can’t >> figure it out or find any instructions on the web. It appears there is a >> local copy, and you can control how much of the stuff on the server is kept >> local up to “All”, but that is more of a cache and everything is still on >> the server. >> >> >> >> Is there any way in an IMAP account in Outlook to make certain folders >> local only? >> >> >> >> I have trouble getting some customers to understand “the cloud”. Or the >> need to get a bigger cloud if they are going to store all their crap in it. >> > > > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
