Trimming Outlook Data Files

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Sitara Lal

Every now and then I trim our Outlook (2003 & 2002) data folders and archive
older data. Now the archive files are themselves getting to be quite large
(around 600MB or close to the max that can be copied on to a CD) and in any
case I would like to split the archive files into separate volumes for
calendar years 2003, 2004, 2005 etc.

What is the best way of doing this and can archive files be deleted (once
they have been secured on CD media) from Outlook? I tried doing this but
Outlook keeps throwing up an error message indicating it cannot file the
archive files.

Thanks for your help.
 
The only way to do this that I know of (there may be 3rd party programs
available) is to open the archive file in Outlook and then create new .PST
files to move the data into. Once you're done moving data between files,
you should be able to right-click their root folders in the Folder List and
click Close -- the files will not be loaded into Outlook but they will still
be on your hard drive.

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