Can't make Archiving Work in Outlook 2003

Jocelyn - I am having the same trouble....was what you expected the
case?

I created new PST's in 2003, and now am pointing my sent items folder
to archive into one of these PST's (using the new format). However,
the old messages have not moved, even though they are beyond the # of
days old to move...

I havent seen what happens to the most recent items in the sent items
folder (i.e. those received after converted to 2003)....

Thanks!

-----------------------------------------------
Message 2 in thread
From: Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] )
Subject: Can't make Archiving Work in Outlook 2003


View this article only
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.general
Date: 2003-11-12 21:01:52 PST


Check the Last Modified date on the items that aren't being archived
as you
think they should. That's the date Outlook uses to determine whether
or not
an item is ready to be AutoArchived, and a simple action such as
moving the
item to another folder can change the Last Modified date. More
information
and a list of actions that change the Last Modified date can be found
he

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;295657

Also, I have personally experienced a problem with Outlook 2003 where
some
of my old messages did not archive properly after I created a new .PST
file
(in the new Unicode format) and copied my old Outlook 2002 data into
it.
All other item types archived fine, just not messages, and the
modified
dates were the same as the sent/received dates on those messages.
After
using OL2003 for a few weeks, I tried AutoArchive again, and some of
the
more recent messages were archived but the oldest ones still didn't
archive.
I'm not sure what's up with that and am trying to find out, but at
least
there's hope since SOME of my messages did eventually archive. The
rest I
will have to move myself, I guess.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


In ,
Rob Schneider wrote:

Folks,

I've tried everything I can think of to make archiving work. Can't.
Are there tricks or is there something special required. My
expectation is that when I performed archiving then data would be
removed from the specified folder per the criteria and inserted into
the archive file. Instead, nothing is removed and no data gets put
into the archive file.

1. Tools/Options Tab: Other: Run archive every 5 day. all other check
boxes checked. Moving old data to c:\data\archive\archive.pst. My ID
has full rights to this folder and file.

2. View Calendar. File/Archive ... to run on Calendar only. Set to
archive items older than 31/7/2003, check on "include items with do
not autoarchive checked". archive files is same as in above.

3. Press OK. Archiving "light" goes on bottom right corner for about 2
seconds. Look at the file archive.pst file. No changes to that file.
Only 271k bytes.

4. I have 3-4 years of Calender entries I epxected to be archived. All
still in the Calender. I expected the archive file to grow and delete
these entries in Calendar.

What am I missing?

On 28 Sep 2004 06:01:26 -0700, (binger) wrote:

Jocelyn - I am having the same trouble....was what you expected the
case?

I created new PST's in 2003, and now am pointing my sent items folder
to archive into one of these PST's (using the new format). However,
the old messages have not moved, even though they are beyond the # of
days old to move...

I havent seen what happens to the most recent items in the sent items
folder (i.e. those received after converted to 2003)....

When archiving, Outlook uses the last modified date to archive the messages.
If you've recently moved or otherwise accessed messages, whatever date you
moved them will be the last modified date. You will, therefore, have to wait
the normal amount of days before those messages are archived.
--
SgtRich

Email Client: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
News Client (Text): Forté Agent 2.0 www.forteinc.com
News Client (Binaries): News Rover 10.0 www.newsrover.com