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How to find which folder an email message is in?

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For Microsoft Outlook users, it’s quite common to create search folders for automatically collecting special email messages, such as unread messages, flagged messages, old messages, etc. As we know, search folder is virtual for easily viewing special messages. After a long time, you may forget where these special messages are from. In this article, I will show you how to find out where an email message is stored in Outlook.

Outlook 2010 and 2013: Find which folder an email message is in

Outlook 2010 and 2013: Find which folder an email message is in

If you are using Microsoft Outlook 2010 and 2013, you can find out which folder a certain email message is stored in with following steps:

Step 1: Shift to the "Mail" view, and double click to open the certain email whose stored folder you will find out.

Step 2: In the opening "Message" window, click "File" > "Info", and you will see the "Current Folder: xxx" besides the "Move to Folder" button.

the Current Folder: xxx besides the Move to Folder button

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