Outlook 2003 Archive Problem

[Microsoft]

Hi

I am using Outlook2003 SP2 on Windows XP SP2 on my laptop with VPN
connection to my office Exchange 2003 server. I try to run archive from FILE

Archive > , to archive all my inbox folders but it doesnt work. It worked

ok previously in my outlook 2000. Any tricks I missed?

Many thanks

MWGP

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Is the archive PST file still available on your machine? Have you tried
running ScanPST.EXE on it? Do you receive any error message?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am using Outlook2003 SP2 on Windows XP SP2 on my laptop with VPN
connection to my office Exchange 2003 server. I try to run archive
from FILE
ok previously in my outlook 2000. Any tricks I missed?

What do you mean by "it doesn't work"? What are the symptoms? Are you sure
the modified dates of the items you think should be archived are older than
your archive interval? You can check by adding the Modified field to the
header line.

 

[Microsoft]

I have created a new PST file ( not the older version- 97 /2002 Outlook pst
file ). The archive process runs very quickly and finishes. I did check my
archive date and subfolders settings and thery are correct.

 

[Microsoft]

i.e I setup archive inbox and its subfolders, before 10 december and
includes items marked not autoarchive into C:\Archive.pst. The file created
but the archive process runs very quickly and finishes without moving my old
messages ( before 10 Dec 2006 ) into the archive pst.

Strange isnt it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

i.e I setup archive inbox and its subfolders, before 10 december and
includes items marked not autoarchive into C:\Archive.pst. The file
created but the archive process runs very quickly and finishes
without moving my old messages ( before 10 Dec 2006 ) into the
archive pst.

Like I said, unless you examine the Modified date, the archiving process
will forever be a mystery to you.

 

[Brian Tillman]

What would be great is to have archive based on "received date" -
which is what most email users would want to do.

I disagree. Suppose I received an important message a year ago, but I open
it every week to refresh my memory about the data it contains. I'd be most
unhappy if Outlook archived it out from under me so that the next week when
I needed to reference it again, it would be gone.

 

[Guest]

I disagree. Suppose I received an important message a year ago, but I open
it every week to refresh my memory about the data it contains. I'd be most
unhappy if Outlook archived it out from under me so that the next week when
I needed to reference it again, it would be gone.

Interesting point - I didn't think of that. But I tested my emails in
Outlook 2000 - when I open an email the modified date doesn't change. It only
changed when the corporate IT folks did an email migration on the backend. If
it actually could work the way you mentioned above, or I had the option of
archiving based on received date, I think that would be great.

Tanuj