Annoying message to autoarchive old items

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Chad Harris

Nearly every time I close Outlook 2003, I get an annoying dialogue box
"Would you like to AutoArchive your old items now?" It explains that
AutoArchive moves items you haven't used in a long time to the archive file
C:\Documents and Settings\ChadHarris\LocalSettings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst to improve performance and to prevent
your mailbox from growing too large and creates an AutoArchived Item in the
folders list. I got it five seconds after I loaded Outlook, and before I had
even configured Outlook for any mail accounts, so the definition of a long
time is a little relative to Microsoft. A long time meant the second
Outlook was installed and opened.

Presumably you can hit the checkbox "Don't Prompt me again" but how do the
Outlook mavens handle this? Do you autoarchive every once in a while to
avoid the pending performance hit and just get rid of the box and does
everyone see this box at first by default behavior? I didn't notice this box
in Outlook XP although I'm sure the principle applied to all versions of
Outlook from the first.

Tia,

Chad Harris
 
I don't use the archive option (turn it off by checking the box) but use the
Personal Folders Backup instead.

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Chad Harris asked:

| Nearly every time I close Outlook 2003, I get an annoying dialogue box
| "Would you like to AutoArchive your old items now?" It explains that
| AutoArchive moves items you haven't used in a long time to the
| archive file C:\Documents and
| Settings\ChadHarris\LocalSettings\Application
| Data\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst to improve performance and to
| prevent your mailbox from growing too large and creates an
| AutoArchived Item in the folders list. I got it five seconds after I
| loaded Outlook, and before I had even configured Outlook for any mail
| accounts, so the definition of a long time is a little relative to
| Microsoft. A long time meant the second Outlook was installed and
| opened.
|
| Presumably you can hit the checkbox "Don't Prompt me again" but how
| do the Outlook mavens handle this? Do you autoarchive every once in
| a while to avoid the pending performance hit and just get rid of the
| box and does everyone see this box at first by default behavior? I
| didn't notice this box in Outlook XP although I'm sure the principle
| applied to all versions of Outlook from the first.
|
| Tia,
|
| Chad Harris
 
Thanks much Milly. Did you notice this in previous versions of Outlook?

Chad

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