Outlook autocomplete cache file

Record Weight is a measure of how often each Autocomplete record is used. Sort by Record Weight and the most commonly used addresses should be at the top.

That makes it easy to select and delete entries with lower Record Weights. How Outlook calculates Record Weight is complicated. In our quick test, sending an email to a new address is added to AutoComplete with an initial Record Weight of 16, However there are entries with lower values than that.

Make sure Autocomplete is on. If the option and button are greyed out then Autocomplete has been disabled using the registry or Group Policy settings explained below. If Autocomplete is on but nothing appears, most likely the Autocomplete list has become corrupted.

Either empty the Autocomplete list or use NK2Edit to check for troublesome entries. However, that might not work with Outlook overwriting the.

Microsoft recommends a method using a developer tool to extract the Autocomplete list from an Outlook data file and import it into another data file. A less risky method is using an NK2 file to migrate the Autocomplete list. Later versions of Office have a way to import. Remove and empty auto-complete list from Outlook.

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Best Answer. Wires May 16, at UTC. I figured this out and resolved the issue. So steps to fix: 1. It might be possible to go straight to Step 4 but I deleted and re-added the cache first.

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