Oh, that is a problem. You can either move the mail to a new pst yourself
or use an archiving utility. Look for ArchiveAssist at
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.asp.
You should consider archiving to HTML or other universal format so you
aren't tied to having a specific application installed to read them. This
will also allow you to move them to DVD. There are utilities on that page
that can do this as well.
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"DickSF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6CD2E96B-2E60-4E90-BB34-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for your suggestion. But a problem remains: mail was imported from
> Eudora in June of 2008. All "last modified dates" of imported mail were
> June
> 2008 even if the mail was from 1999. So Autoarchive doesn't seem able to
> pick up the "received" rather than "last modified" date, and archives
> nothing
> before 2008 because of the June 2008 last modified date on every message
> originally imported to Outlook.
>
> Can you figure out a way of doing the archiving that reflects this issue?
> If you'd rather reply and continue exchanges outside of the Microsoft
> site,
> my direct email is <(E-Mail Removed)>. Thanks for any further help.
>
> Dick
>
> "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Use Autoarchive (tools, options, other) and archive all mail older than a
>> certain date. It will do everything for you from creating the archive to
>> deleting the mail. Also, empty your deleted items and junk mail folders
>> and
>> use the large message search folder to identify excessively large
>> messages.
>>
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>> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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>>
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>>
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>> Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
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>>
>> "DickSF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:5DB7337B-A249-4696-A976-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > I need to reduce the nearly 5 gig size of my Outlook.pst file. A
>> > helpful
>> > user told me I can create a rule based on 'received in a specific date
>> > span'
>> > and move the mail (say, received before Jan 1 2008) to an *archive
>> > .pst*
>> > folder. But I don't know how to create the Archive.pst folder so that
>> > the
>> > mail is actually *removed* from the Outlook.pst file and reduces its
>> > size.
>> > I
>> > don't want the archive folder just to be another ordinary mail folder,
>> > since
>> > that will not reduce the size of Outlook.pst. Can you help?
>> >
>> > Dick
>>
>>
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