The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Probably you'd be able to do that with some VBA code, or select all of the
items of one folder and drag them to a folder in the Windows Explorer. But
are you sure you want to go that way? If the company rule is legal and you
break that I'd fire you.

--
Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool:
: <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>


Am Wed, 7 May 2008 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT) schrieb (E-Mail Removed):

> The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
> They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
> Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
> reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
> to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
> shared company server.)
>
> Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
> settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
> export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
> of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
> workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.
>
> And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
> way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

(E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
> They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
> Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
> reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
> to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
> shared company server.)
>
> Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
> settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
> export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
> of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
> workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.
>
> And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
> way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Are you able to create a PST? If so, do that and manually copy your data to
that PST.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Hello Phoenix,

Inorder to store your selected e-mails to your local computer, you can
create a new pst file ( File>new>outlook data file). You can then drag and
drop the folders.
The only reasons why i find archieving is blocked may be due to storage
limitations.

Hope this works.
Have a nice day:-)

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

>
>
> Probably you'd be able to do that with some VBA code, or select all of the
> items of one folder and drag them to a folder in the Windows Explorer. But
> are you sure you want to go that way? If the company rule is legal and you
> break that I'd fire you.
>
> --
> Best regards
> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
>
> : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool:
> : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>
>
>
> Am Wed, 7 May 2008 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT) schrieb (E-Mail Removed):
>
> > The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
> > They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
> > Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
> > reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
> > to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
> > shared company server.)
> >
> > Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
> > settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
> > export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
> > of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
> > workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.
> >
> > And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
> > way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?
>

Try Outlook True Archive www.outlooktruearchive.com

It will alow you to archive to a PST or export to disk in MSG/EML formats.

NOTE: I am associated with this utility.

"Jimmy Kavanagh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Try Outlook True Archive www.outlooktruearchive.com
>
> It will alow you to archive to a PST or export to disk in MSG/EML formats.
>
> NOTE: I am associated with this utility.


Why bother? Outlook does this without any third-party application...

Gordon, I bothered with the suggestion because i read in the original post that:

"The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003). They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the Archive feature does not show.)"

If this is the case then the user cannot perform the archive. If I have misread the query or misses something later in the replies then I apologies.

"Jimmy Kavanagh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Gordon, I bothered with the suggestion because i read in the original post
> that:
>
> "The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003). They
> also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the Archive
> feature does not show.)"
>
> If this is the case then the user cannot perform the archive. If I have
> misread the query or misses something later in the replies then I
> apologies.
>
>


If it's a company, then the OP won't be allowed to install any third-party
software either, without the IT Dept's permission. And if they've disabled
archiving, then they're not going to allow the installation of software that
puts that function back, are they?

Gordon,

I can see that for some unknown reason I have got your back up. I merely made a simple suggestion that the original poster give the utility a try. I made no claim that it *would* work.

And you give many IT departments too much credit for locking down every possible avenue for a solution. I have dealt with a few large companies and not all IT departments are created equal.

I see from another post I made that you clearly tagged as SPAM that you have certain issues. In the suggestions that I made, I clearly identified myself with the utility in question and genuinely offered it as a possible solution, or *possibly* as an easier way of doing things

Still, I can see from your tone that I am not welcome here and would therefore request the moderator to remove my account.

I wish all the users here sucess with any problems that they encounter.

Jimmy Kavanagh <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I can see that for some unknown reason I have got your back up. I
> merely made a simple suggestion that the original poster give the
> utility a try. I made no claim that it *would* work.

I, for one, don't see your post as spam, provided that your utility
addresses the original poster's problem.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]