archiving does not archive items older than the specified period

[Guest]

I just set up atchiving for all my folders, using the standard settings of 6
months. When I start archiving manually (tools-mailboc cleanup-archive), only
the items in the month that is 6 months ago are archivd, not the older ones.
What am I doing wrong?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I just set up atchiving for all my folders, using the standard
settings of 6 months. When I start archiving manually (tools-mailboc
cleanup-archive), only the items in the month that is 6 months ago
are archivd, not the older ones. What am I doing wrong?

Probably nothing. Note that archive works on the date an item was *last
modified*. IF something isn't getting moved automatically, move what you
wish to the archive PST manually.

 

[Don Holmes]

Is there a way to change the last touched date (last modified) to match the "received" date or to make archive us the "received" date of email messages?

Over the past year I've restructured my OST email folders (and accordingly the folders in various associated pst's used for archiving) and the impact was that all moved email messages had their "modified date" changed on whatever date I did the move and now of course they don't end up in the proper archive file (which is indexed by "received" date, not "last modified date")...

I have several archive pst files all arranged by correspondence date however a good number of messages which fall outside of the intended range for a given file end up in it anyway because the archive function uses the "modified date" instead... As I have thousands of messages in several dozen folders I'd prefer to not have to go fishing through each folder for messages of a given timeframe and manually move them to the appropriate pst file... Argh... Any thoughts?

Naturally I'd be fine if I could modify the "modified date" to be the "received date" or if I could make the archive function work off of the "received date" instead of the "modified date"...

Sure appreciate any feedback / thoughts...

Thx, D

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I just set up atchiving for all my folders, using the standard
settings of 6 months. When I start archiving manually (tools-mailboc
cleanup-archive), only the items in the month that is 6 months ago
are archivd, not the older ones. What am I doing wrong?

Probably nothing. Note that archive works on the date an item was *last
modified*. IF something isn't getting moved automatically, move what you
wish to the archive PST manually.

 

[Kenneth]

Is there a way to change the last touched date (last modified) to match the "received" date or to make archive us the "received" date of email messages?

Over the past year I've restructured my OST email folders (and accordingly the folders in various associated pst's used for archiving) and the impact was that all moved email messages had their "modified date" changed on whatever date I did the move and now of course they don't end up in the proper archive file (which is indexed by "received" date, not "last modified date")...

I have several archive pst files all arranged by correspondence date however a good number of messages which fall outside of the intended range for a given file end up in it anyway because the archive function uses the "modified date" instead... As I have thousands of messages in several dozen folders I'd prefer to not have to go fishing through each folder for messages of a given timeframe and manually move them to the appropriate pst file... Argh... Any thoughts?

Naturally I'd be fine if I could modify the "modified date" to be the "received date" or if I could make the archive function work off of the "received date" instead of the "modified date"...

Sure appreciate any feedback / thoughts...

Thx, D

Hi Don,

After messing with all this forever, I turned off all
Outlook archiving. Now, I simply archive manually.

I created a bunch of archive files, and move old messages to
them periodically. That way, the messages I wish to archive
are actually archived.

All the best,

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Is there a way to change the last touched date (last modified) to
match the "received" date or to make archive us the "received" date
of email messages?

Not that I know of.

Over the past year I've restructured my OST email folders (and
accordingly the folders in various associated pst's used for
archiving) and the impact was that all moved email messages had their
"modified date" changed on whatever date I did the move and now of
course they don't end up in the proper archive file (which is indexed
by "received" date, not "last modified date")...
Yep.


I have several archive pst files all arranged by correspondence date
however a good number of messages which fall outside of the intended
range for a given file end up in it anyway because the archive
function uses the "modified date" instead... As I have thousands of
messages in several dozen folders I'd prefer to not have to go
fishing through each folder for messages of a given timeframe and
manually move them to the appropriate pst file... Argh... Any
thoughts?

No, sorry - I don't like or use PST files, so I'm probably not the best one
to ask. I use Exchange & leave everything on the server if I care about it -
if I don't, I delete it. I'm not one of those "save everything forever
people", though - and others are.

Naturally I'd be fine if I could modify the "modified date" to be the
"received date" or if I could make the archive function work off of
the "received date" instead of the "modified date"...

I really don't know that you can - perhaps changing your system clock might
do it, but I'm not sure.