How do you archive Outlook Emails / .pst files

[Paula LA]

Can someone explain how to manually archive old email (from InBox and Sent)
on a hard drive in a way that will allow me to go back and access the
material when I need it? I'm using Outlook 2007, and this has been a problem
going back to v. 2002.

I was able to find a tutorial on the MS site, but all it seemed to enable me
to do was move the email from one folder to another (a "Personal Folder), but
the new folder was still hogging up Outlook resources. My mail box is
over-full, and I need to lighten it up.

I don't use Auto Archive because the emails seem to "disappear" when that's
enabled.

 

[Gordon]

Can someone explain how to manually archive old email (from InBox and
Sent)
on a hard drive in a way that will allow me to go back and access the
material when I need it? I'm using Outlook 2007, and this has been a
problem
going back to v. 2002.

I was able to find a tutorial on the MS site, but all it seemed to enable
me
to do was move the email from one folder to another (a "Personal Folder),
but
the new folder was still hogging up Outlook resources. My mail box is
over-full, and I need to lighten it up.

I don't use Auto Archive because the emails seem to "disappear" when
that's
enabled.

Create a new pst file in whatever location you want (but be warned - MS does
not support the accessing of a pst file on a network drive) and just drag
the data you want to save to it. You can then close the file, and re-open it
when you need to.

 

[DL]

Auto archive moves mail from your current folder set, using the settings you
selected, to an Archive data file.
You can open the Archive Data File within Outlook, if its not allready open
and view all data in it.
The Archive is just another data file (Personal Folders)

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, exactly, by "was move the email from
one folder to another"
It appears to me that you have created another data file, how is it named?