"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" said in
No, don't import!!!!! That totally defeats the main purpose of
archiving -- clearing old information out of your active folders.
Since the OP said they wanted to "retrieve" their archived items, it sounds
like they no longer want some or all of them in that archive file. One
scenario is that the archive .pst file was for another employee no longer
there and someone else takes responsibility for their e-mails but want to
yank them into their current information store and exercise their own
archive rules. However, I don't know if importing the items will touch
their modified date which is what auto-archive will use to determine when an
item expires (and not the displayed received date). I know that dragging
them from one info store to another does touch (i.e., update) the modified
date for the item.
If all the OP wanted to do was to *look* at the messages in the archive .pst
file, I wouldn't thought that all they would've asked for was how to open
it. To me, asking about to *retrieve* them means the OP wants to yank them
out of that archive file. I could be wrong. Often there is a difference
between what you ask and what you meant.
