What is the difference between "personal" folders & "archive" fol.

[Guest]

I want to save a lot of my emails
Should I set up Archive folders or personal folders
are they one in the same?

Please advice

 

[DL]

Personal Folders is the default OL *pst file
Archive is where you move mail, of a certain date, from the default pst, to
the archive.pst
It is not a backup
For backup see here, an MS backup tool,
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&DisplayLang=en

 

[Brian Tillman]

I want to save a lot of my emails
Should I set up Archive folders or personal folders
are they one in the same?

One and the same, essentially. An archive PST is, in fact, an ordinary
"Personal Folders" file, but Outlook assigns it the specific task of holding
all items selected by an "archive" function. Internally, there's no
difference between a Psersonal Folders file and an Archive file. Both are
PSTs.

If you want simply want to spread your messages out so they aren't so
difficult to keep straight, a second Personal Folders file (but named to
something besides "Personal Folders") will suffice. If you want Outlook
automatically to move items from your main PST to another PST based on
dates, then an Archive file will prove useful.