Archiving Outlook

Hello,
Have you tried right clicking on the folder(s) in the Folder List View (not the Outlook Bar View)? There should be an option there for Archive. You can manually archive a folder this way. It's under the File menu in Outlook XP, I'm not atan OLK2K PC right now.

When you manually archive in OLK XP you can name the file, say with the same folder name that you're archiving, so that you can access it later if you ever need to. This is a great feature that may prompt you to upgrade. Iarchive folders for people that I've worked with for years that have left the company, but being a state organization, I am still able to keep those records without crowding the server space with hundreds or even thousands of old messages!

Auto Archiving in 2000 really stinks. I hope the info below helps.

1. To force a manual archive go to File, archive.

2. if you ever used exmerge or imported a pst, then any email item that was imported will have a creation date of the date it was imported. Outlook does archiving, not by email sent date, but by creation date.

Try uninstalling office, use the microsoft tool eraser2k to clean the office registry settings.

Reinstall office and setup archiving again.