Archive workaround!?

[Phoenix8172]

The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

Probably you'd be able to do that with some VBA code, or select all of the
items of one folder and drag them to a folder in the Windows Explorer. But
are you sure you want to go that way? If the company rule is legal and you
break that I'd fire you.

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Am Wed, 7 May 2008 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT) schrieb (e-mail address removed):

 

[Brian Tillman]

The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Are you able to create a PST? If so, do that and manually copy your data to
that PST.

 

[Raj]

Hello Phoenix,

Inorder to store your selected e-mails to your local computer, you can
create a new pst file ( File>new>outlook data file). You can then drag and
drop the folders.
The only reasons why i find archieving is blocked may be due to storage
limitations.

Hope this works.
Have a nice day