Message catagories have been reset to purple

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Are any other colors messed up?

Are they messed up in both OWA and Outlook?

Is the dialog to assign colors also all purple?
 
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All message category colors were changed to Purple

Yes, Both OWA and Outlook

No, I can change the categories to any color I want. I can create new categories and assign any color I want.



Thanks!



Are any other colors messed up?

Are they messed up in both OWA and Outlook?

Is the dialog to assign colors also all purple?
 
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No Macros, Yes I am the only one affected. I have a lot more email categories than anyone else, and a huge mailbox - 30GB not counting the online archive - so that's probably the issue here.

For lack of a better idea I've restored the .edb from backup and will export the mailbox to .pst with kroll ontrack. I found this tool(Outlook Freeware - Export All Master Category Lists of Outlook 2007/2010/2013) today to export the categories once I import the mailbox onto a different account and, with my fingers crossed, it will carry over the color codes.

Thanks for your help Diane!

I have never seen this before. Are you the only person affected? Have you run any macros that did anything with categories?
 
Re: Message categories have been reset to purple

It could be due to the number of categories.

I've seen the colors appear and disappear due to a bug in an update, but they went from white to the correct color to white when restarting outlook. (That was in Outlook 2007, so it's definitely not your problem.)
 
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