archive question

[Harlett O'Dowd]

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.

 

[DL]

Since Archive works on modified date, perhaps the modified date(s) are later
than the archive settings date, in which case they wont be archived

It may be that when you migrated the Eudora File the modified dates were
reset to the migration date.