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Divelucaya
In 2005 I upgraded from Outlook 2000 to 2003. When I archive any folder that
has mail older than the upgrade date, that mail does not get archived. When
I change current view to include the modified date, all the non-archived mail
(other than recent items) shows a modified date of "None."
Now, I have read many of the similar postings at this community and have
read a bunch of crap. Some replies said if you move the mail to another
folder it will change the modifed date. This is NOT necessarily true; it only
does this if you move the mail to the archive folder. Some replies said if
you manually move the mail the the archive folder, the modified date will
change to the date of the move. This is NOT true. All the mail I moved showed
a modified date ranging from the date the mail was originally received to
weeks and months after the received date. To me, this is in fact the actual
modified date. So, even though upgrading changed the modifed date to "None"
the actual modified date is still hidden somewhere in the mail. Try opening a
mail with a "None" modified date and then Select File>Properties and you will
see the Sent, Received, and Modified dates are all shown. Reading through
some of the posts it seems the same thing happens upgrading from any version
of Outlook to any other version of Outlook.
So, one of my questions is why can't Microsoft develop a patch to allow
Outlook to look at the hidden modified date (or look at the received date)
rather than just do nothing?
If the only way to place items with modified dates of "None" in archive is
to manually move them, then what is the point of even having an archive
feature if it does not work the way it should? Don't even bother responding
to this question; I know it still works for newer mail and for all mail if no
upgrade was involved. It just seems to me that it is lacking and should have
been designed to allow archiving by a user selected date (i.e., sent,
received, modified). I'll bet you the ranch that most users would have
selected the received date.
Why does Microsoft continue to build this stupidity into newer versions of
Outlook? You can't tell me that maintaining the validity of the received date
in the mail field can be done but not the modified date.
has mail older than the upgrade date, that mail does not get archived. When
I change current view to include the modified date, all the non-archived mail
(other than recent items) shows a modified date of "None."
Now, I have read many of the similar postings at this community and have
read a bunch of crap. Some replies said if you move the mail to another
folder it will change the modifed date. This is NOT necessarily true; it only
does this if you move the mail to the archive folder. Some replies said if
you manually move the mail the the archive folder, the modified date will
change to the date of the move. This is NOT true. All the mail I moved showed
a modified date ranging from the date the mail was originally received to
weeks and months after the received date. To me, this is in fact the actual
modified date. So, even though upgrading changed the modifed date to "None"
the actual modified date is still hidden somewhere in the mail. Try opening a
mail with a "None" modified date and then Select File>Properties and you will
see the Sent, Received, and Modified dates are all shown. Reading through
some of the posts it seems the same thing happens upgrading from any version
of Outlook to any other version of Outlook.
So, one of my questions is why can't Microsoft develop a patch to allow
Outlook to look at the hidden modified date (or look at the received date)
rather than just do nothing?
If the only way to place items with modified dates of "None" in archive is
to manually move them, then what is the point of even having an archive
feature if it does not work the way it should? Don't even bother responding
to this question; I know it still works for newer mail and for all mail if no
upgrade was involved. It just seems to me that it is lacking and should have
been designed to allow archiving by a user selected date (i.e., sent,
received, modified). I'll bet you the ranch that most users would have
selected the received date.
Why does Microsoft continue to build this stupidity into newer versions of
Outlook? You can't tell me that maintaining the validity of the received date
in the mail field can be done but not the modified date.