Renaming Personal Folders in Outlook

I tend to backup my Outlook PST files in the past, back when free email service providers tend to limit the storage space for each user. I recalled Hotmail only provided each user 2MB of storage while Yahoo! gave 4MB.

It was in the early 2000s when digital cameras were becoming more mainstream, however, photo sharing services was relatively non existent. Unlike these days where we can use Facebook to share photos, back then, the more common method was email. And those photos, though low in resolution and in file size, can quickly fill up the 4MB mailbox.

I recalled having to delete emails, or sometimes, just the attachments to make space for more emails. Another way was to download the emails through a client such as Outlook, and then export the mailbox to PST.

Overtime, I find myself having many PSTs, and while I can open them again, having multiple PSTs opened in Outlook and all them named "Personal Folder" makes it difficult to search for anything. When I right click on the Personal Folder, there isn't a rename option. Clicking on "Data File Properties" will open the PST properties dialog, and under the "General" tab, I find the name of the PST "Personal Folder" greyed out.

If you want to rename it, you need to click through one more step, and that is, under "Advanced...". The "Outlook Data File" dialog will open, and now under the "General" tab, the Name: field is ungreyed and you can rename your PST into something more useful.

Hope this helps.

Adding Yahoo! Mail to Outlook Desktop

If you're old school like me and still use Yahoo! for your email, you'll find sometimes using a desktop app such as Outlook is useful to have a single view of all your emails. These days, is common to have more than one email, and they may be from different providers, such as Hotmail (Microsoft), GMail, or Yahoo!.

In the past, the IMAP option for Yahoo! Mail was only extended to Premium users. However, these days, all users can have access to it. Here are the steps to add Yahoo! Mail to your Outlook:

Outlook
1. Launch your Outlook
2. Click on File on the top left corner
3. Under the Info tab, click on "Account Settings"
4. On the Account Settings dialog, under the "Email" tab, click on "New.."
5. Enter your Yahoo! email address and click connect

Web Browser
6. Now, open up web browser login to your Yahoo! email
7. When the mail app is loaded, look for your name on top right of the site
8. Click on your name, and then "Account Info"
9. In the new window, look for "Account Security"
10. Click on "Manage app passwords"
11. Click on the "Select your app" and select "Outlook Desktop"
12. It will then generate a 16 alpha character password
13. Copy that password

Outlook
14. Paste the newly generated password into the password field
15. The emails from Yahoo! should now start syncing

For reference, I'm using Outlook Version 1803 (Build 9126.2259 Click-to-Run) with an Office 365 Subscription.