I have looked at all the settings 3 times. I have everything set to the
default setting which is 3 months. tried to do the File>Archive> select the
cabinet and set the date to 8/31/09. I have tried to do the fix microsoft
office and still nothing. I can move the files to the archive folder. It just
will not do the archiving. Do I need to uninstall outlook and reinstall?

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MNJoe

Archiving works on the modified date. Have you checked that already?
Additional solutions and details can be found here;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/archivenotworking.htm

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"MNJoe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have looked at all the settings 3 times. I have everything set to the
> default setting which is 3 months. tried to do the File>Archive> select
> the
> cabinet and set the date to 8/31/09. I have tried to do the fix microsoft
> office and still nothing. I can move the files to the archive folder. It
> just
> will not do the archiving. Do I need to uninstall outlook and reinstall?
>
> --
> MNJoe

MNJoe wrote:

> I have looked at all the settings 3 times. I have everything set to the
> default setting which is 3 months. tried to do the File>Archive> select the
> cabinet and set the date to 8/31/09. I have tried to do the fix microsoft
> office and still nothing. I can move the files to the archive folder. It just
> will not do the archiving. Do I need to uninstall outlook and reinstall?

Archiving has global and local settings. The global setting enables
archiving and lets you select defaults in you want to use those for each
folder where archiving is enabled. Although archiving is enabled, you
then have to specify on WHICH folders it gets applied. Just because you
turn it on doesn't mean any archiving will occur. Each folder must have
its own local archiving feature enabled (and which can have settings
different than the global settings).

This is like the master circuit breaker in your house and the wall
switches in your rooms. Just because the master circuit breaker is
closed doesn't mean all the lights turn on in your house. You then use
the wall switch to decide which room will be lit.

There should be a button in the global archive settings to apply those
settings to all your folders. You might want to rethink about applying
the same settings across all folders. You might have some user-defined
folders that you never want archived or get archived after a much longer
interval (measured by their modified datestamp, not the Received
datestamp). You might have some folders that you don't want archived
but instead have its items permanently deleted after a much shorter
interval, like for your Junk folder.

Something else you might want to consider is the archive interval for
the global (options) and local (folder) settings.

If the global archive interval was 10 days and the local archive setting
(for a folder) was 3 days, nothing in that folder gets archived until 10
days has elapsed. The global setting says when the archive job gets
executed. The local archive setting says when an item becomes
*eligible* for the specified archive action. With the example settings,
folder items become eligible for archiving after they are 3 days old but
they don't actually get archived until the next 10-day archive job gets
run.

While this doesn't sound like a big deal, it is if the global archive
interval is months away. You have archiving on your Junk folder to
permanently delete items that are over, say, 5 days old but they remain
in that folder for 3 months because that is what you configured in the
global archive settings for when the archive job actually gets executed.

Typically you want the global archive interval to be set to the smallest
archive interval you configure for any of your folders. If the shortest
archive interval on a folder is 5 days and that is when you expect items
to get archived (versus just being eligible for archiving) then set the
global archive interval to 5 days. It is easier to simply set the
global archive interval to 1 day, the shortest interval allowed. Then
each day as an item in a folder becomes eligible for archiving is also
when that item actually gets archived.