outlook failed to archive

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On a system with Outlook 2000, I created an archive folder and then
clicked on the menu file-->archive and select the folder and a date of
one year ago. I then pressed okay and outlook appears to jump like it
is trying to do something, but nothing happens . I look at the
archive.pst file and nothing has been added to it and then look at the
email folder and emails older than one year ago are still there. Is
there something that I could be missing in the settings that would
cause it not to archive without an error message. I've looked at the
folder options and set those to the same date.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm sure this is something simple that
I am overlooking in my ignorance of outlook.
 
On a system with Outlook 2000, I created an archive folder and then
clicked on the menu file-->archive and select the folder and a date of
one year ago. I then pressed okay and outlook appears to jump like it
is trying to do something, but nothing happens . I look at the
archive.pst file and nothing has been added to it and then look at the
email folder and emails older than one year ago are still there.
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Did you examine the Received date or the (usually undisplayed) modified
date? it is the latter, not the former, that the archive process uses to
determine whether or not it should archive an item.
 
Thanks, that appears to be the problem. Any idea on why they would
archive based on a date that nobody typically uses/sees or knows is
available?
 
Thanks, that appears to be the problem. Any idea on why they would
archive based on a date that nobody typically uses/sees or knows is
available?
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Well, were it I who had done the coding, I would explain that the function
of archiving is to move out of your message store those items you hadn't
referenced for some time. If you received a message some while back, but
you referenced it recently, by replying or by moving it to another folder,
my thinking would be that you don't want that message to disappear on you,
since you referenced it recently, so using the received date would be a less
than ideal chioce of dates to use. I would also refer to you Outlook's
Help, since it explicitly states that the most recent of the Sent, Received,
or Modified dates is used to determine archive eligibility.
 
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