stupid archiving question (to an offline location)

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Chris Barnes - 20 Sep 2007 20:15 GMT

I have a user running OL2003 who keeps *everything*. This is causing
not only his .pst file to be huge, but filling his entire hard disk.

He has been manually archiving old stuff, which of course, saves the
archive in a different .pst file. This solves the problem with the main
.pst file getting too big, but not the harddisk problem.

If he moves the archived.pst files to another (external, usb) drive,
then OL complains if the drive isn't connected.

So.... how can we archive his stuff, without OL complaining that the
archived files aren't available? *SURELY* offline archiving is a common
need, isn't it?

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Brian Tillman - 20 Sep 2007 22:23 GMT

> So.... how can we archive his stuff, without OL complaining that the
> archived files aren't available? *SURELY* offline archiving is a
> common need, isn't it?

If the archive PST is NOT listed in the Folder List, periodically, with
Outlook closed, burn the archive PST to a CD and delete it. The next time
AutoArchive runs, Outlook should create a new archive PST in the place where
the old one resided. If the archive PST is listed, right-click and close
it, close Outlook, and proceed as above.

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