problems archiving messages

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Hi all


I'm having trouble with the archiving in Outlook 2002.

I've set my Sent Items to archive anything older than 3 months. However
after the archive process is completed I go into my Sent Items folder (the
current, not the archived) and I can see a total of 622 messages that are
older than 3 months, some going well back to May 2003.
There is not pattern that I can determine, short of there is anywhere from
1-12 messages for any given day, other messages sent on these same days have
been successfully archived.

If I check the Archive Sent Items folder these messages are not present, so
they appear to have been missed or skipped for whatever reason.
This is also not a network environment.


Any ideas or suggestions....


Thanks
Chris
 
Can you start the archiving process manually?
Also check both your archive as your original pst-files on errors with
scanpst.exe and clear your Deleted Items folder.

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Roady [MVP] asked:

| Can you start the archiving process manually?
| Also check both your archive as your original pst-files on errors with
| scanpst.exe and clear your Deleted Items folder.
|
|| Hi all
||
||
|| I'm having trouble with the archiving in Outlook 2002.
||
|| I've set my Sent Items to archive anything older than 3 months.
|| However after the archive process is completed I go into my Sent
|| Items folder (the current, not the archived) and I can see a total
|| of 622 messages that are older than 3 months, some going well back
|| to May 2003.
|| There is not pattern that I can determine, short of there is
|| anywhere from 1-12 messages for any given day, other messages sent
|| on these same days have
|| been successfully archived.
||
|| If I check the Archive Sent Items folder these messages are not
|| present, so
|| they appear to have been missed or skipped for whatever reason.
|| This is also not a network environment.
||
||
|| Any ideas or suggestions....
||
||
|| Thanks
|| Chris
 
Haha, lovely message! ;-)

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Hi again

Thanks for your help.


Yes I can start the archiving process manually and except for these 622
messages it appears to work fine.

I cleared the Deleted Items folder, closed Outlook and ran scanpst.exe on
all my PST files. There was some errors detected, however the Inbox Repair
Tool indicated these were minor, I did perform the repair though.

I ran autoarchive again afterwards and these messages are still present in
my regular Sent Items and not being archived.


Any other ideas or suggestions ?

Thanks again for your help


Chris
 
Hi Chris
Auto archive uses the modify date of a message, not the send or receive date.
So the messages that are not archived have been changed later.
(With View - current view - customize current view - add field choose "modify date" you can make the modify date visible)


----- Chris wrote: -----

Hi again

Thanks for your help.


Yes I can start the archiving process manually and except for these 622
messages it appears to work fine.

I cleared the Deleted Items folder, closed Outlook and ran scanpst.exe on
all my PST files. There was some errors detected, however the Inbox Repair
Tool indicated these were minor, I did perform the repair though.

I ran autoarchive again afterwards and these messages are still present in
my regular Sent Items and not being archived.


Any other ideas or suggestions ?

Thanks again for your help


Chris
 
OK cool, that shows a date within the time specified, so there's the reason.

Now I just need to figure out how I modified these emails ;) The compact
feature I imagine would do this I suppose, not that I recall running it.


Cheers heaps
Chris


Conny Put said:
Hi Chris
Auto archive uses the modify date of a message, not the send or receive date.
So the messages that are not archived have been changed later.
(With View - current view - customize current view - add field choose
Click to expand...
"modify date" you can make the modify date visible)
 
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