Outlook 2003 archive does not work

J

Jacky

Hi, I use manual archive function. Selected the folders and subfolders to
archive.
I selected older than " DATE" to archive and Press OK.

But the archive file size only havs 265k. I extracted it. It contains the
folders, no message inside.

Anybody help me?
Thanks

Jacky
 
B

Brian Tillman

Jacky said:
Hi, I use manual archive function. Selected the folders and
subfolders to archive.
I selected older than " DATE" to archive and Press OK.

But the archive file size only havs 265k. I extracted it. It contains
the folders, no message inside.
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AutoArchive does not work on the Receved date. It works on the (usually
undisplayed) Modified date. Clearly your messages' Modified dates are more
recent that your archive criteria.
 
J

Jacky

Yes, I used modfied date to archive, not auto archive.
But it just contained the folder in archive file, no messages.
 
B

Brian Tillman

Jacky said:
Yes, I used modfied date to archive, not auto archive.
But it just contained the folder in archive file, no messages.
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Then I suspect, as I said, that the Modified dates were too new.
 
S

scott

Hi, I use manual archive function. Selected the folders and subfolders to
archive.
I selected older than " DATE" to archive and Press OK.

But the archive file size only havs 265k. I extracted it. It contains the
folders, no message inside.

Anybody help me?
Thanks

Jacky
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I am having the exact same problem. No matter what I do, I only get
folders and no data. A little help is appreciated.

Thanks.
Scott
 
B

Brian Tillman

I am having the exact same problem. No matter what I do, I only get
folders and no data. A little help is appreciated.
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Make sure the modified (not the received) date is older than the archive
date.
 
K

khastings

BRIAN is correct - I had dragged the emails I wanted to archive from one
folder to a new one and I couldn't archive. Outlook changes the modified
date if you relocate an email like this, so change your archive date to
tomorrow, it will ask you if you want to do that, hit yes, and it will
archive properly. Thanks Brian!
 
B

Brian Tillman

khastings said:
BRIAN is correct - I had dragged the emails I wanted to archive from
one folder to a new one and I couldn't archive. Outlook changes the
modified date if you relocate an email like this, so change your
archive date to tomorrow, it will ask you if you want to do that, hit
yes, and it will archive properly. Thanks Brian!
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You're welcome.
 
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