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Change one click archive folder in Outlook/OWA
I was happy to see your post!
I like this post because it tells me where the setting should be.
However, when I click on the Tools icon for Mailbox Settings, I see only the first two of the four options that are displayed in your screenshot.
Oh, well. Perhaps I just cannot configure the target-folder after all....
It is possible to rename these default folders to their default names. To do this you have to go to Outlook Online and change the email language setting to some other ie. spanish. Then reload the page, logout. Login using private window then change the language back to your preferred language and tick the box below asking if the default folders should be renamed too to match the language. Now the folders are named to default value. In my case somebody had renamed this archive folder and moved into other folder. The name was correct after these steps but I couldn't move the Archive folder in the top mailbox folder which is very disappointing.
For anyone else finding this thread in 2025:
It is not necessary at present to logout and then use a private windows to login. To revert the localised folder names, such as "Archive" and "Drafts", to their defaults, simply change the language setting in OWA to another language of your choice, and then back to your original language. For example, I just changed the language from Danish, to English, and back to Danish; and this reset the name of my "Archive" folder, which I had changed ages ago, before the names were made unchangeable.
- For people checking this in the future:
If you still need to move the folder around or something, it needs to be done by using this software:
https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/hidemovedeletemfcmapi.htm
