OL2002 Auto Archive folder name

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Rich@MDOT_30Oct2003

I encountered the problem addressed by Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article - 292995
OL2002: Archiving Mail to an Existing PST Renames the
Personal Folders to "Archive Folders"

Does anyone know if this problem has a solution?
 
What behavior do consider to be the problem?
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
The problem is Auto Archiving Outlook items to an Existing
PST Renames the Personal Folders to "Archive Folders".

I have setup several *.pst files in a folder I named
2003Archives located on my PC. My intention was to keep
separate archive files for each item type (i.e. emails,
appointments, contacts etc.) stored on my PC rather than
the Exchange Server. I named the files 2003email,
2003contacts etc. and set up Auto Archive to move the
Exchange Server files to my 2003 files once a week. When
Auto Archive runs, it renames all of my 2003 files
to "Archive Folders" in the Outlook Folder List. This is
very frustrating because I end up with a list of folders
all named "Archive Folders".
 
There's no way to defeat that default behavior. I'm not sure there's much to be gained, though, from using separate PST files for different item types, compared with opening one archive PST with multiple folders.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thank you for the info. At least now I know that there is
no way to defeat this, and I will not waste my time trying
to find a solution to a default behavior. It just seems
Draconian for MS to name my files for me!

By archiving this way, I keep my PST files a "manageable"
size. In my job I write contracts for highway
construction projects. For integrity issues (i.e. "I
did/didn't tell you to include blah blah blah in this
contract" said the Boss, and the humble assistant
replied, "I have a copy of the message you sent", to which
the Boss replied, "Oh, maybe I told you wrong".), I keep
all emails, contacts, appointments and tasks archived by
year for reference. I have a considerable amount of each
of theses Items. I have contacts from MDOT , Contractors
and a personal contacts list for family and friends. I
make notes in my archived meeting appointments. There are
usually several meetings for each project, so as contract
preparation progresses I have a history of the details
discussed at each meeting. If I kept all items in one
archive it would create one HUGE file.

I just wish there was an option to allow Outlook to use my
file names. Oh well, another reason I'm a disgruntled
Office user.

And again, thanks for the Info.
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There's no way to defeat that default behavior. I'm not
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sure there's much to be gained, though, from using
separate PST files for different item types, compared with
opening one archive PST with multiple folders.
 
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