I do not have an archive.pst folder

[William]

I run Outlook 2003 with the current XP Professional operating system. At the
left side of Outlook are folder buttons. Despite the fact that I have allowed
AutoArchive to run several times, nothing shows up in the archive folders
listed at the left panel of Outlook. I followed directions to find the folder
for archive:

C:\Documents and Settings\wallen\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

No archive.pst folder exists. I do find a large wa.pst which might be the
actual archive folder. Currently the Archive Folders list at left show three
subfolders: Deleted Items, Sent Items, Search Folders. All are empty.

My Outlook runs on an Exchange server. However, I have specified that I want
local cache, and that procedure works with the other folders (that is, I am
able to read messages even when I am not connected to the Internet and
therefore not connected to the Exchange server.

Is there an installation error is not having an archive.pst folder? If
wa.pst might be the archive folder (it shows a modified date of today
although I did not archive today), how would I get it to show up in Outlook
folders at the left panel?

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You will only have an archive .pst file if you have actually run archiving. It's not clear from your description whether you've done that. You can check your settings in Tools | Options | Other | AutoArchive.

You can open your wa.pst file with the File | Open | Outlook Data File command.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"William" <Wil...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3023CDC6-8EE9-4C99...@microsoft.com...

[William]

Yes, I had run auto-archive several times before I discovered that I had
nothing in my archive folder.

I'll trying importing wa.pst and see if that's where my old stuff is.

Thanks.
William

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Don't import! Use the command I suggested.

If you check the properties of your Sent Items folder, what does it show as the name of the archive .pst file?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"William" <Wil...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:02A3D008-EF3D-49DE...@microsoft.com...

[William]

I don't archive the sent folder, but if I did I'm told that it would archive
to archive1.pst

When I search for *.pst, archive1.pst does not show up.

I do archive deleted folder, it appears in the list under archive folders
(in list at left of Outlook) but it is empty.

Is choosing archive-don't archive a folder-by-folder choice?
w

[William]

I believe I'm getting the hang of it. I've opened some of the other .pst
files that I found in search and they do contain the messages that I thought
were lost. I guess to run a test I need to tell Outlook to archive the inbox
and sent box and run the archive routine and see what happens. I'm beginning
to feel quite dense.
Best,

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, archiving is a feature that you can turn on for some folders and off for others.

Maybe a dumb question, but why would you want to archive items that you've deleted? Trash is trash, as I see it. I have my Deleted Items folder set to permanently delete items more than 3 days old. That gives me time to retrieve anything that I might have deleted by mistake.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"William" <Wil...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ECFA5880-97EA-4F02...@microsoft.com...

>I don't archive the sent folder, but if I did I'm told that it would archive
> to archive1.pst
>
> When I search for *.pst, archive1.pst does not show up.
>
> I do archive deleted folder, it appears in the list under archive folders
> (in list at left of Outlook) but it is empty.
>
> Is choosing archive-don't archive a folder-by-folder choice?
> w
>
> "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> Don't import! Use the command I suggested.
>>
>> If you check the properties of your Sent Items folder, what does it show as the name of the archive .pst file?
>>

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Maybe you had more than one mail profile and those other items were from the .pst file used with that profile?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"William" <Wil...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:32F1B843-FA67-4051...@microsoft.com...

>I believe I'm getting the hang of it. I've opened some of the other .pst
> files that I found in search and they do contain the messages that I thought
> were lost. I guess to run a test I need to tell Outlook to archive the inbox
> and sent box and run the archive routine and see what happens. I'm beginning
> to feel quite dense.
> Best,
> William
>
> "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> Don't import! Use the command I suggested.
>>
>> If you check the properties of your Sent Items folder, what does it show as the name of the archive .pst file?
>>

[William]

My Outlook materials go back over generations of Outlook, including before it
was integrated with Exchange.

No, I really don't archive trash. It just happened to be the only folder I
could immediately find that did not have "Do Not Archive" checked.

I've set Inbox and Sent to auto-archive. I'll see what happens when that
time comes around.

I wonder if anybody else uses email as an autobiography?
w

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

> Maybe you had more than one mail profile and those other items were from the .pst file used with that profile?
>
> --
> Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
> Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
> and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
> Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
> http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx
>
>
> "William" <Wil...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:32F1B843-FA67-4051...@microsoft.com...

> >I believe I'm getting the hang of it. I've opened some of the other ..pst