Old email addresses lurking.

Mel_P · 9 Oct 2022 at 23:21

I use outlook live (with an old hotmail address). No problem BUT old email address keep popping up when I start to type an address in the "to" box.

They are NOT in my address book / contact list!

I did use these once but they are now "defunct" and I have deleted them from my contacts list. They are obviously stored somewhere in a hidden folder - but I cannot find them. E.g. I had an old tesco.net email address which I stoped using years ago but "windows" seems to have retained this in a hidden place - any ideas please?

Thanks, Mel

Glanza · 10 Oct 2022 at 08:52

If you want to delete the cached entries, start typing the email address and then press down on your arrow key so it's highlighted and then delete. It will remove it from your cache.

Mel_P · 10 Oct 2022 at 11:20

Glanza said:
If you want to delete the cached entries, start typing the email address and then press down on your arrow key so it's highlighted and then delete. It will remove it from your cache.

Thanks - tried that but delete key doesn't do anything. This DOES work on the "proper" Outlook but not on the web "live" version.

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Oct 2022 at 20:47

Mel_P said:
I use outlook live (with an old hotmail address).

Are you talking about this web client? https://outlook.live.com/owa/ ?

Mel_P · 15 Oct 2022 at 17:17

GaryTheSnail said:
Are you talking about this web client? https://outlook.live.com/owa/ ?

Yes.

Glanza · 17 Oct 2022 at 14:15

On the webmail as you start to type an email address, you'll get the box with email addresses in, click on the X to the right of the email address.

Deleted member 77746 · 19 Oct 2022 at 09:18

Mel_P said:
They are NOT in my address book / contact list!

They won't be it's email address " cache ".