Windows 10: Outlook keeps writing an unwanted folder

I am trying to permanently delete a folder from Documents that Outlook keeps writing back. I am pretty stumped as to what could be happening here.


Rep steps:


1. Attempt to delete the folder from File Explorer. It will throw "the folder is in use by another process".


2. Use resmon.exe to identify Outlook.exe as the process locking the folder. NOTE: It's usually outlook.exe, but I have on one occasion noted Edge.exe locking this folder too. This is not any sort of system folder or anything I could think of being used by Microsoft services, just a personal doc folder.


3. Kill Outlook.exe process.


4. Delete folder. It will succeed.


5. NOW, everything will be fine until I restart the computer. After restart, as soon as outlook opens usually with startup, the folder gets written back, and again becomes locked!


I'm banging my head trying to figure this out.

I have OneDrive connected to Outlook, but this folder isn't synced to my OneDrive cloud, and I have already entirely uninstalled the OneDrive client.

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BTW: Are you seeing any problem when opening Outlook that it thinks it didn't close properly last time. I get this message sometimes and it's not true.





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I'm afraid the problem of the Folder Pane is back again for me.