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.

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.
>

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?

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?
>

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
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Even though the messages themselves are date stamped from several
> years ago?
>
> is there a way to manually move messages into the archive.pst?