You'll need to change each folder. I have no idea why they did it - its been
like this since day 1 of outlook 97. If I had to guess, its because in those
days it was used almost exclusively with exchange and archiving is best done
by the server and they didn't think we'd need a lot of features. They also
didn't expect users to use tons of subfolders - they hoped people would use
views and searches instead of trying to make outlook act like a traditional
filing cabinet.
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"Blue Moose" <Blue
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> I told Outlook to apply my Auto Archive Settings to all folders, and then
> I
> changed my mind. Unfortunately, I ran into the following problems:
>
> 1. There is no option to apply the "Do Not Archive" setting to all
> folders.
> 2. When I apply the "Do Not Archive" setting to a folder, this setting is
> NOT applied to any sub-folder.
>
> The result is that I have to go through my numerous sub-folders one-by-one
> and manually change the Auto Archive setting to "Do Not Archive."
>
> Is there something I missed, or is this just a major design flaw or an
> intentional design by Microsoft to encourage auto-archiving by not making
> universal selection of the "Do No Archive" setting available, and thus
> force
> people into the time-consuming task of manually changing each folder's
> setting?
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