If you use Outlook and have a slow connection and/or problems with Exchange, read this:

Ok, so I know that most people on this site are quite tech savvy and have probably dealt with this issue already but, I figured i'd post this relatively simple solution just in case there are other people out there being plagued by this PITA issue -

I have been subscribed to about 4 or 5 RSS feeds for months and had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA they even existed. Not a big deal, until I found out that not only was it using up all of my storage (roughly 4000 emails were neatly tucked away in my "RSS Folder") but it was also crushing my bandwidth.

I have no idea how I subscribed to all of them exactly, but I am very happy that they are all gone.

So, here’s how to delete all these annoying RSS subscriptions in Outlook 2007. First thing to do is to disable Outlook’s RSS Sync. Now open your Outlook 2007 and follow these steps:

1. Click Tools
2. Click Options
3. Select Other tab
4. Click Advanced Options
5. Uncheck Sync RSS feeds to the Common Feed List
6. Click OK.

And you’re done for the first part. Now the second part is to delete RSS subscription from your Outlook 2007:

1. Click Tools and then Options.
2. Select Mail Setup tab
3. Click Data Files
4. Click RSS Feeds tab
5. Now you can either delete it one by one or you can select all feed using SHIFT key
6. Click Remove and confirm.
7. Done.

Now the third part; the annoying part. You need to expand the RSS feed icon in your Personal Folder (at the left bar) and delete the feeds one by one. As you’ll need to confirm deletion at every feed (that’s more then around 1.500 clicks for me) from Microsoft’s knowledge base, I understand that deleting a feed means unsubscribing as well.

Its amazing how much space I just found adn, how much more reactive my Exchange is now...

 

Thanks a lot. + rep