No DATE in archived messages!!!

[roninla]

Trying to save archive of ALL of my Outlook messages. New to outlook and I
hate it.
ha
When I attempt to archive messages in INBOX...exporting to Excel.... I am
given choices of fields to include.......and there is no DATE field.

I checked the newly archived files and NONE of them (21,000!!) have dates!
WHat the heck is going on?

Also....does anyone know how I can send emails BACK to their original email
address before Outlook imported them? Not knowing any better...cuz I'm
dumb...
I selected TWO gmail accounts to be forwarded to Outlook.......not knowing
that Outlook would take ALL (4 years) of my Gmail messages OUT of my gmail
account!
My gmail email account is EMPTY. I don't know what the heck happened. A
real mess.
thanks in advance
ron

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

Outlook has inbuilt archiving functions.

How about telling us your version so we can provide the right information to
you and help you understand how to best maange your data.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook

 

[VanguardLH]

roninla wrote ...


Outlook has inbuilt archiving functions.

How about telling us your version so we can provide the right information to
you and help you understand how to best maange your data.

I don't think the OP is actually using Outlook's archiving function despite
mentioning "archive". After filtering out all the superfluous and misplaced
"..." pauses, it looks like the OP is actually *exporting* his message store
to an .xls (Excel) file. When exporting, you can custom the map of fields
from the input (Outlook data) to the output file. When exporting, it looks
like the Date and other headers are not available to map to a field in the
records output to the .xls or .csv file.

 

[DL]

The default for a pop account is to download all msg's unless you selected
the option to keep a copy on the server
You could have used an imap setup, which would have left them intact.

You are not using the Outlook Archive function, you are simply exporting
msgs to excel, for some reason

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Trying to save archive of ALL of my Outlook messages. New to outlook and I
hate it.
ha
When I attempt to archive messages in INBOX...exporting to Excel.... I am
given choices of fields to include.......and there is no DATE field.

Exporting to Excel does not constitute an archive and is not a good way tpo
save your Outlook data for future reference.

I selected TWO gmail accounts to be forwarded to Outlook.......not knowing
that Outlook would take ALL (4 years) of my Gmail messages OUT of my gmail
account!
My gmail email account is EMPTY. I don't know what the heck happened. A
real mess.

Switch to accessing gmail with an IMAP account and you'll be able to drag all
the messages back to the server.