Archiving - Outlook 2003

[Mark Griffiths]

Hi,
I'm currently experiencing problems trying either to set auto-archiving or
just manually saying archive everything now.

Is there somewhere you have to set something "special" in order to get the
blinking thing to work?

I've gone into the properties of all the folders I want to archive and set
them to archive everything older than 1 month to the default archive folder,
then tried to archive using the folder setting and everthing was still in
the Inbox and Deleted Items.
So I then tried different dates in the archive this folder and sub-folders
option and checked the include items marked DoNotAutoArchive, and still
everything remains in these two folders.

Whats going on?

All/Any help appreciated.

Mark

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've gone into the properties of all the folders I want to archive
and set them to archive everything older than 1 month to the default
archive folder, then tried to archive using the folder setting and
everthing was still in the Inbox and Deleted Items.

The archiving function does not use a date that you normally can see. It
uses the item's modified date, not the received date. Many actions can
update that modified date, like opening an item, moving it to another
folder, and so on. Try displaying the modified date using the Field
Chooser.

 

[Mark Griffiths]

Thanks Brian,
I was importing mail into a test account so I didn't screw up the original
profile, so all the modified dates were set to yesterday - no wonder they
were'nt going anyware!

Cheers again and Regards
Mark

 

[Brian Tillman]

I was importing mail into a test account so I didn't screw up the
original profile, so all the modified dates were set to yesterday -

That's one of the reasons why importing should be avoided. Instead, just
make a copy of the entire PST, use a test profile (you don't import mail
into an account) and open the PST in the profile with File>Open>Outlook Data
File. The dates will be preserved that way.