RSSApplies to Microsoft Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007
Why doesn't AutoArchive work? I ran it and nothing was archived; all of the folders in the archive.pst are empty.
Archiving has always caused a lot of confusion among users because Outlook archives items based on the last modified date, which may or may not be the received date (or start or completed date). This works well, for the most part, until you import messages or edit older messages, both of which changes the last modified date. If you wanted to archive by the received date (or start, or completed date) you either needed to move the mail yourself (move, not copy, or the modified date changes!) or use a 3rd party archiving tool.
Use AutoArchive to Automatically Cleanup the Deleted Item and Junk Email Folders
The default setting for AutoArchive is to use either the received/competed/start date or the modified date, whichever is later. The modified date is the received date or the completed date, unless you do something that affects the modified date after receiving a message or marking a task complete. Import & Export, copying, and editing items are among the things that will change the modified date.
Enable Archiving by Received Date
With the release of the Outlook 2010 April 26 2011 hotfix, users can now archive by the received date. This also supported in Outlook 2007, with a hotfix released in December 2010. It is not supported in earlier versions of Outlook.
These hotfixes support the ArchiveIgnoreLastModifiedTime registry setting, which lets you use the received, start, or completed dates as the archive date.
After installing the hotfix, you need to add the following value to the registry (Outlook 2010):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Preferences DWORD Value: ArchiveIgnoreLastModifiedTime Value data: 1
In Outlook 2007, you'll add the value to this key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences DWORD Value: ArchiveIgnoreLastModifiedTime Value data: 1
With this value set to 1, you'll be able to archive based on the received, completed, or end date of an Outlook item:
- Email message: uses the received date.
- Calendar item: uses the actual date that an appointment, event, or meeting is scheduled for.
- Task: uses the completed date. Note that Tasks that are not marked as completed are not archived, and Tasks that are assigned to other users are archived only if the status is completed.
- Note: uses the last modified date and time.
- Journal entry: uses the date the journal entry was created.
Note that Contacts are never archived in any version of Outlook.
Do It For Me
If you don't want to edit the registry yourself, we have reg files you can download and run. Be sure to choose the correct one for your version of Outlook.
If you use an older version of Outlook, you can use a utility to archive the messages.
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Archive Attender is an automated email archiving tool that moves essential data out of Exchange mailboxes and into a secure, external storage device. Using Archive Attender, administrators also have the ability to control and grant access rights to users. No additional hardware or client installations are required. | |
HTML Email Archiver works with all types of Microsoft Outlook folders and archives Outlook items to HTML format or platform-dependent CHM format. This allows you to publish Microsoft Outlook folders on the Internet, or move data from Microsoft Outlook onto other software and hardware platforms, including mobile devices. These archives reproduce the structure of Microsoft Outlook folders, can contain messages or other elements in any language and with any types of attachments, support sorting by several criteria and can be searched with advanced options. | |
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ArchiveAssist is a standalone program designed to overcome archiving failures in Microsoft Outlook. Outlook archives messages based not on their Received Date or Sent Date but on what Outlook calls their Modified Date, which changes to the current date any time you touch message by, for instance, by Editing, Importing, or Replying To a message. ArchiveAssist allows archiving to work on recently touched messages. | |
ArchiveAssistXpress lets you set a new Modified Date for all the messages in any folder you select so that you can tailor your archive operations to your needs. Works will all versions of Outlook. | |
Exclaimer Mail Archiver is a fully featured, competitively priced archiving solution for Exchange that's easy to set up and maintain. It uses file system-based storage so it can be installed on any Windows PC and doesn't require SQL. Administrators get a compliant, long-term email history with full auditing and legal hold features. End users get rapid, intuitive search from Outlook, any browser, smartphone or tablet, with AD-controlled access. | |
Exporter for Outlook is powerful tool which export messages from Outlook mail folders to standardized message or mailbox files. Exporter saves messages in standardized RFC/MIME format. | |
MailStore Home is the free email archiving and backup software for all private users. Over the years, emails can become scattered among different computers, programs and mailboxes. Archive your internet mailboxes such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail or any mailboxes using POP3 or IMAP; Microsoft Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010; Outlook Express and Windows Mail; Microsoft Exchange Server and Hosted Exchange; Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey; EML and other email files. # .EML and other email files * Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey * .EML and other email files. | |
MessageExport for Outlook is an add-in that helps you get your email out of Outlook in particular way. MessageExport lets you save selected or new email messages to different formats, including PDF, EML, MSG, GIF, TIF, HTML, MHT, CSV, txt, and others. MessageExport can convert, name and save Outlook email in a single operation. Includes a timer function, so MessageExport can run every xx minutes to process new emails in a specific Outlook folder and save it in text format, on a network folder. | |
MessageSave is an Outlook add-in for archiving and saving email messages. This powerful and intuitive plugin supports msg, txt, eml and mbox formats. It enables manual, rule-based and schedule-based operation. Use MessageSave to save e-mail messages for archiving, data retention, regulatory compliance, document management, backup, email sharing and exporting Outlook email to other mail clients, such as Mac Mail.app. Version 4.0.4.303. | |
MessageTree creates "message trees" of all your emails in text or HTML format, maintaining the same folder tree structure you use inside Outlook. You select which messages to include, so you can create multiple message trees for different purposes; you can include all your messages or only a subset of all messages; you can create message trees by subject or by any other parameter. You can easily distribute message trees when you need to share messages, and you can easily post them online. | |
Outlook True Archive allows you to select which date to use when performing an archive. Select Items based on Received Date, Sent Date, Last Modified Date. Copy, Move or Delete items. Select Source PST and Destination PST. Respect or ignore the "No Archive Flag" Version 1.0.14 | |
Sperry Software is releasing their Save As PDF add-in for Outlook 2013 out of beta testing. This add-in converts emails to PDF files (including attachments). The add-in can convert emails, Word docs, Excel files, and many more formats with no PDF printer driver needed. This tool is for Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 and is now being released for Outlook 2013 (both 32-bit and 64-bit). In addition, several new features have been added like the ability to include the mailbox owner name and the ability to always include the attachments in raw format (instead of transcribing them into the PDF). | |
Save Message is a MS Outlook add-in which can automatically save mails including attachments to the disk/net folder after emails arrive or are sent. Message body can be saved in plain, RTF, HTML or native Outlook format. There is a possibility to customize message header in the save file and to include attachments info to the saved file. Save Message can work with attachments which were included or embedded to the message or which were included to the message as OLE object. | |
More Information
Description of the Outlook 2010 hotfix package (outlook-x-none): April 26, 2011
How to change the criteria that Outlook 2010 uses to archive different item types
Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-x-none.msp): December 14, 2010
Housekeeping and Message Management tools for Outlook
Configuring Outlook's AutoArchive settings tutorial
How to Automatically Empty Deleted Item Folder
Create an Outlook rule to expire mail after a certain number of days
Archiving Tools for Exchange Server
How to read items archived using AutoArchive
