I recently changed my Gmail password. Then Outlook would not connect to Gmail without me having to click OK on the dialog box asking me to confirm my password. I had already corrected / updated the Gmail Account password within Outlook, so I was a little annoyed at having to keep clicking OK to get my email every time. The password behind the stars was correct, I was just being forced to tell Outlook that is was OK!!
So I had a brilliant idea. Delete the Gmail account in Outlook and create a new one. So I did. And I followed some advice I found on Gmail.com on how to set my Gmail account. I remember it required special settings for ports and the like. Well, that page also told me to chose IMAP. That seems to be a mistake. That creates a separate "IMAP Root Store" - or Folder - Outlook that is separate from Personal Folders Inbox!! It then downloaded 9000 email messages to this Root Store - the vast, vast majority of which were duplicates.
OK, so I don't make another stupid mistake, how can I delete the IMAP Root Store and recreate what I had before?? (Gmail linking directly into my Personal Folders Inbox).
THANK YOU FOR HUMORING ME!!