Re: archive not working

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I hate the whole autoarchive thing so am unlikely to suggest anything apart
form steering away from it. I have found it to be very erratic, unreliable
in almost all of my clients' sites (some hundreds).

Try this instead for the Calendar:

In folder list view, select the Calendar, then File | Archive | set the date
from and the destination .pst file (archive or personal folder - up to you)
Outlook will then stuff old calendar items into that folder. If it didn't
already have a folder called Calendar, it will make one automatically.

You'll see it chug away for a while and then tell you that all folders are
up to date.

This method leaves recurring meetings that haven't ended yet alone (a good
thing).

For all other folders, view in a table, sort by date/completed (tasks) etc ,
select the ones to move and drag to a suitable destination folder (of the
same type eg Tasks to a Task folder). Don't use this method in the
Calendar as recurring meetings will get moved too.

Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
Canberra, Australia
www.acorntraining.com.au
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"jeffrey" <astro46@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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judy, thanks for the response.

ok. i dragged the folder containing the contacts to be archived to the
archive folder. simple enough. didn' t think to do that.

i understand the 'date last modified' criteria. i don't see how that could
have caused the problem. the contacts to be archived hadn't been changed.
if
moving them to another folder qualifies as modify, still, i tried
archiving
the next day and still no go. even giving a date in the future.

how about the calendar items? those haven't been modified.


"Judy Gleeson MVP - Outlook" <judy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Archive works on date last modified. That may be what's causing the
problem.

Can't you just select the people and drag them to a Contacts folder in
the
Archive.pst?


Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
Canberra, Australia
www.acorntraining.com.au
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(if
applicable) of Outlook - you can find this information in Help | About.
Also
include the type of mail account(s) you use and any other pertinent
details.
Be sure to put a concise summary of your question in the subject line,
and
the full details in the body of your post.




"jeffrey" <astro46@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i am trying to use archive for the first time (ol 2003). i move a
number
of
contacts to new folder and clicked on file>archive>archive this folder.
i
give it todays date. it acts like it is doing something. but all the
contacts are still there. and no contacts folder appears in the
'archived
folders' folder.

then i asked ol to archive calendar items older than 5/14/04. i have a
calendar folder in 'archive folders' but the earliest date is 5/14/05
going
up to 5/14/07. but it contains no items. all the items still reside in
the
original calendar folder.

any ideas why archive doesn't work?








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