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Archiving In Outlook 97

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by nk

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Can anyone tell me if the archiving feature in Outlook 97 includes the COntacts folder? All the documentation I have read, says that Contacts are never archived, either manually or automatically, yet I have several users who have complained that they have lost Contact items when autoarchiving or manual archiving is conducted.
Is this a bug?

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by jabulani

The contacts folder has no facility for archiving and it cannot be archived.

For example of you open MS outlook and select File/Archive.../Archive this folder and all sub-folders, if you select the contacts folder and set a date for which you know items will fall within the range and then select OK, This is the sure way to force archiving and outlook will go through the motion but nothing will be archive

by nk

I did do this on a mchine running Windows 2000 running Office 97 and guess what? It archived the items in the Contacts folder!!!!

by jabulani

Well, I'm sorry about that but come to think of it I may have been on an Outlook 98 machine.

I don't know if this is a bug or maybe Outlook 98 was not as "finished" as we all thought and Microsoft never bothered to do a patch because Outlook 98 was not far behind.

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