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Harlett O'Dowd
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      28th Aug 2007
this is an odd one.

I've finally convinced a user to migrate from Eudora 7 to Outlook 2003
when I set him up on his new laptop. One of the features I used to
sell the migration was Outlook's archiving feature - the guy has 10
GIG of mail covering a ten year period.

So I did the migration and verified Outlook's happy. It sends. It
receives. He has all his old messages and his old address book.

Great. Now I click FILE and select ARCHIVE and point the archive.pst
file to an external hard drive. It says fine and I tell it to archive
everying in his Personal Folder - including sub-folders that are more
than six months old to this archive. It creates everything, shows an
Archive folder under his Personal Folder - and all the folders/
messages it moved.

Great. Then I go and look. His PST is still 10 gig and the archive.pst
on the external hard drive is less than a meg.

Do I need to physically drag & drop all of his folders/messages into
the archive to pare down his outlook.pst file? Something else? punt?

Thanks in advance.

 
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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]
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      28th Aug 2007
Archiving is based on modification date. Since you just imported the
messages their modification date is probably very recent.

"Harlett O'Dowd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> this is an odd one.
>
> I've finally convinced a user to migrate from Eudora 7 to Outlook 2003
> when I set him up on his new laptop. One of the features I used to
> sell the migration was Outlook's archiving feature - the guy has 10
> GIG of mail covering a ten year period.
>
> So I did the migration and verified Outlook's happy. It sends. It
> receives. He has all his old messages and his old address book.
>
> Great. Now I click FILE and select ARCHIVE and point the archive.pst
> file to an external hard drive. It says fine and I tell it to archive
> everying in his Personal Folder - including sub-folders that are more
> than six months old to this archive. It creates everything, shows an
> Archive folder under his Personal Folder - and all the folders/
> messages it moved.
>
> Great. Then I go and look. His PST is still 10 gig and the archive.pst
> on the external hard drive is less than a meg.
>
> Do I need to physically drag & drop all of his folders/messages into
> the archive to pare down his outlook.pst file? Something else? punt?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>


 
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Harlett O'Dowd
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      28th Aug 2007
On Aug 28, 9:11 am, "Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]"
<vi...@omegageek.com> wrote:
> Archiving is based on modification date. Since you just imported the
> messages their modification date is probably very recent.


Even though the messages themselves are date stamped from several
years ago?

is there a way to manually move messages into the archive.pst?

 
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DL
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      28th Aug 2007
And please dont multi post

"Harlett O'Dowd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Aug 28, 9:11 am, "Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]"
> <vi...@omegageek.com> wrote:
>> Archiving is based on modification date. Since you just imported the
>> messages their modification date is probably very recent.

>
> Even though the messages themselves are date stamped from several
> years ago?
>
> is there a way to manually move messages into the archive.pst?
>



 
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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]
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      28th Aug 2007
Yes, even if the receive date is years ago. You can drag/drop messages &
folders to the archive file

"Harlett O'Dowd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Even though the messages themselves are date stamped from several
> years ago?
>
> is there a way to manually move messages into the archive.pst?


 
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