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In Vista and Windows 7 you can go to the folder location by replacing username with your username below then copy and paste into the address bar of Windows Explorer then press Enter. Click the Folders button in the Explorer toolbar (or View, Explorer Bar, Folders) if the folder list is not shown. To view the securetemp folder, at Start menu, run, typeĪnd expand the Temporary Internet Folders branch to show the OLK* folder(s) in the Folder list (left side of screen). So you'll need to look there for the OLK or Content.Outlook folder. Vista and Windows 7 moves the Temp Internet folder toĬ:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ Where 8A0VMD3A can be any random characters. The OLK directory will end in a series of numbers.Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\8A0VMD3A In Windows XP, the securetemp folder for Outlook 2000 to 2003 is at You can move the location of the SecureTemp folder by editing a registry key, after first creating the folder on your hard drive. If you close the message or preview another message, the link is broken and the file is left in the SecureTemp folder. When you close the open attachment and the message is still in open or in preview, the temporary file is deleted from the SecureTemp folder. Outlook places attachments that are opened from Outlook items in a SecureTemp folder, which is well hidden under the Temporary Internet Files folder atĬ:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK* The only way to avoid "losing" attachments in this well hidden folder is to save them to your hard drive, before opening. This offers more security as only your user account and the computer administrator account can view the files under this folder. The folder Outlook uses is under the temp internet folders. This is so that the virus scanner can check it before it is opened.
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When you open attachments on email directly from Outlook, a copy is written to a temporary folder on your hard drive.