Solution: Click on arrow downward arrow to expand all the folders and search for the lost folder. In such a case, a folder can seem to be lost but in reality, it is not lost and resides as a sub-folder within a different folder. Scenarios & Their Associated SolutionsĬase 1: If Folder is Lost during Dragging and DroppingĪt times, when a user is performing drag and drop action (for performing some other task), then it can happen that a folder may be moved under a folder, as its sub-folder. In addition to this, we will also specify the associated solutions for the same. In the next section we, will discuss about some cases when Outlook folders can get lost. However, we do have some indirect methods, which do not guarantee complete recovery, but in some cases, it is possible to recover the lost folders. Users generally in this condition ask 'How can I find a lost folder in Outlook?' MS Outlook does not provide any direct method, which guarantees to recover lost folders and no organization have created any software that deals with such issue. Since there is a possibility of lots of folders, going through each folder in the attempt of finding the relocated folder data is not possible. In such situation, they are unable to find the relocated folder at its original location. Accidentally Outlook user's folder is moved to some other location while they are performing a task.

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