Calendar archive

[W. Clinton Terry]

I am not very knowledgable about the Windows operating system, alhtough I
use it every day. I have just discovered, to my dismay, that the calendar
of MS Outlook, does not keep all your appointments permanently. It looks
like it is keeping about 10 months of information. I thought I had the
default set to archive to the default subdirectory under mydocuments.
Apparently not. When I go to look for .pst files, there is one archive file
that is about 1.5mg and and an outlook.pst file that is about 4.85mg. When I
double click on them, neither gives me any appointment information that is
not already displayed in the calendar.

I now have the autoarchive set to clean out old items afer 560 months. Will
that solve my problem? Are there other settings that I should be aware of
and activate in order to prevent loss of information?

As an aside, I only use MS outlook for calerndar and all the calendar
features. I use Eudora for my default e-mail program, in the event this
might have anything to do with my current dilemma. It would be very nice if
I could recover my prior appointments, but I did a search of the hard drive
for any *.pst files and found only the archive.pst and outlook.pst.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you might be able to provide.

Clinton Terry

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can enable/disable archiving on a per-folder basis on the Properties
dialog for that folder. The current properties for your Calendar should also
give you the location of the archive file where old items are stored. To use
an archive file, open it with Outlook's File | Open | Outlook Data File
(Personal Folders File) command.