Empty DeletedItems" Folder

I manually performed a total archive of the PST using the Outlook archive
option. I have never used auto archive.

The "fun thing" is that I had a bunch of Inbox subfolders. When mail comes
in I sorted it into those subfolders. Outlook archive doesn't know how to
deal with them. I have created a folder structure outside the Inbox and now
sort the messages into those instead.

I now have two 1.5G+ archives built this way with messages going back to
1998.

Is there a better alternative?

.... Thom
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Thom Little - www.tlanet.net - Thom Little Associates, Ltd.

"Thom Little" <thom.TakeThisOut@tlanet.net> wrote in message
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>I manually performed a total archive of the PST using the Outlook archive
> option. I have never used auto archive.

Archiving is not a backup. It is not a way to duplicate the contents of a
PST.

> The "fun thing" is that I had a bunch of Inbox subfolders. When mail
> comes
> in I sorted it into those subfolders. Outlook archive doesn't know how to
> deal with them. I have created a folder structure outside the Inbox and
> now
> sort the messages into those instead.

Archive certainly does hand;e folder hierarchies if you configure it to do
so.

> I now have two 1.5G+ archives built this way with messages going back to
> 1998.
>
> Is there a better alternative?

Since you decided to create a new PST, you didn't need to do anything to the
old PST. It is your backup. No need to create a copy of it. To move data
from the old PST to the new PST, you simply copy the data from the old to
the new, then close the old PST.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I plan to keep the files for a long time. The old PST file was damaged in
many different ways and creating the archive created a new file that does
not appear to suffer from that damage.

I ran into a quirk with the Inbox. I had a number of subfolders defined in
the Inbox and sorted incoming messages into them.

During the archive with subfolder processing enabled, the subfolders not in
Inbox were processed correctly. The data in all of the subfolders in the
Inbox simply disappeared. (It was removed from the PST file and was not
present ion the archive.)

.... Thom
___________________________________________________
Thom Little - www.tlanet.net - Thom Little Associates, Ltd.

"Thom Little" <thom.RemoveThis@tlanet.net> wrote in message
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>I plan to keep the files for a long time. The old PST file was damaged in
> many different ways and creating the archive created a new file that does
> not appear to suffer from that damage.

However, it's entirely possible that the archive PST doesn't contain all the
data in the original PST. A better approach would probably be to create the
new copy PST then copy the folders (or the folders' contents) to the copy.

> I ran into a quirk with the Inbox. I had a number of subfolders defined
> in
> the Inbox and sorted incoming messages into them.
>
> During the archive with subfolder processing enabled, the subfolders not
> in
> Inbox were processed correctly. The data in all of the subfolders in the
> Inbox simply disappeared. (It was removed from the PST file and was not
> present ion the archive.)

Without being able to look at your PC, I really can't explain what may have
happened, but given the fact you were using the archive process and not a
simply copy (or, as a less attractive alternative, and export), you've
introduced complexity that wasn't needed and, in my experience, the more
complex a process, the more likely something will go awry.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]