Deselecting categories often takes 3+ attempts

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Karlski

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Hi guys, new to the forums here so a big hello and very nice forum you have, hopefully I can find an answer to my well overdue question

I use 'Categories' an awful lot to manage my work emails. I set up a special folder to display any mail which is assigned to a category which is very helpful to see my total outstanding jobs.

My problem, is that when i chose to 'clear all categories' on a particular email, it very often will not work first time. If I then click another email and then back onto the one i want to remove category, sometimes that will work, but not every time.. In order to remove a category I am often clicking on and off of the email and 4 or 5 times which obviously is a massive PITA. It's just so strange, sometimes i can clear 10 categories in a row, and other times it won't work 10 times in a row!!
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Is there a known problem with this? Anyone else experienced the same thing but found a work-around?

Many thanks to anyone who can provide insight to my problem as I have searched the internets high and low, to no avail.

Thanks!

Karl
 
Diane Poremsky said:
What view are you using? I'm wonder if you are clicking on the group header (although that should work too).
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Hi Diane,

Im using the main view (if that means anything). If you see the below picture, I am inside a search folder which shows all categorised emails, and by right clicking the little coloured tickets, I can choose to Clear Categories, but that's my problem; the categories do not clear every time. It's closer to 50% of the time which is really not very good, i'm wondering whether i'm doing something wrong, if it's an inherent problem with Outlook 2010, or my version, I just don't know! Suppose I should try on a colleagues system to troubleshoot it....

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No, you aren't doing anything wrong or incorrectly - it should work. You could try running scanpst, although I don't think its a guaranteed fix. I'll see if i can repro the behavior.
 
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