Archiving the Archive Folder?

[Jason]

I've searched for this but couldn't find it. My office runs Office 07 and
Exchange 07. My Archive file has grown to over 4gb. I'd love to open up my
archive file and just keep let's say 3 years worth of information. I thought
i could open up that archive pst and set archive settings for my "archive"
file, but i'm not sure if you can do that. i like how my normal folders are
archiving, but we only need to keep 3 years worth of information versus the
7-8 we have now. Can anyone please help?

thanks
Jason

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

Every 2 or 3 years make a new Archive file and set it at the location
autoarchive moves old stuff to. Delete Archives that are older than you
want to keep. You could even make one every year to make life easy.


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Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook

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[Jason]

Judy

Thanks for your response. I assume MS's Archive function could just delete
old files in Archive. Your way would work fine if i had started that 2-3
years ago, but i want access "all the time", to my Archive Folder. I want my
current Archive folder to only keep about 3 years worth of information. I
thought it could be set to delete everything past 3 years.

i keep 3 months worth of information in my OST file, and everything else
gets dumped to Archive. I just want Archive to keep 3 years worth. is this
impossible?

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

yes - you'll have to move contents out of the archive manually based on the
age of each item. An archive folder cannot be archived.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook

www.judygleeson.com
www.deskdoctors.com
Want to be more productive? Outlook 2003 user? Read "7 settings all Outlook
2003 users should change" at www.pragmatix.com.au