auto archive

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questions,

does it auto archive overwrite previous files ? it apprear that we lost alot
of emails and one thing i notice is auto archive is turned on.
 
Sue Mosher said:
No, AutoArchive always appends to the designated .pst file.
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Can you clarify this? I ask because my PST is HUGE (about 820M). I store all
sorts of things in my e-mail and I'm a pack-rat, with info going back about
eight years. I don't archive because I thought I would lose archive A when
archive B was written (I had read this at some site). If it appends archive
B to archive A, then nothing is lost and I get a slimmer PST in the bargain.

Can I set my Outlook to auto-archive in such a way as to make my PST file
very small but without any loss of my information?
Thanks
 
Peter D said:
Can you clarify this? I ask because my PST is HUGE (about 820M). I
store all sorts of things in my e-mail and I'm a pack-rat, with info
going back about eight years. I don't archive because I thought I
would lose archive A when archive B was written (I had read this at
some site). If it appends archive B to archive A, then nothing is
lost and I get a slimmer PST in the bargain.
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When you archive, there is one Archive file active, unless you deliberately
archive different folders to different archive files. There is no "archive
A and archive B". Archiving items from a folder adds those items to the
folder's associated archive file and does not overwrite anything in that
archive file. You seem to have a misconception on how archiving works.
Can I set my Outlook to auto-archive in such a way as to make my PST
file very small but without any loss of my information?
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Your PST can be as small as you want it to be by adjusting your archiving
criteria. Archiving won't automatically make your PST smaller. In fact,
you want your PST to be somewhat larger than the data it currentlly holds.
That way, the Windows file system won't have to get involved when you add
items to the PST, since the space will already have been allocated.
 
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