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Turning off autoarchive once and for all
"GJS" wrote in message
... because the .pst is set to open with word. I don't know how to reset it It doesn't matter what it's configured to open with because you NEVER try to open it by double-clicking in Windows Explorer. You try to open it ONLY from within Outlook with FileOpenOutlook Data File. because, of all the things I CAN find, I can't find what appears to be a straight Outlook app in the "open with" choices. What is the difference between Outlook (2003), outlook connector and outlook express. Outlook 2003 is a Personal Information Manager contained within the Office family of applications. The Outlook Connector is a mail transport that works with Outlook to allow access to Hotmail/MSN accounts. Outlook Express is a mail and newsgroup client. Isn't express outlook light? Certainly not. While it's true that both Outlook and Outlook Express are mail clients, their similarity ends there. They are simply two apps that share the word "Outlook" in their names and can perform a few of the same tasks, that's all. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Turning off autoarchive once and for all
Don't open it by double clicking - use File, Open, Outlook Data file.
Outlook 2003 is an email, calendar and task application. Outlook connector is used to connect Hotmail and MSN email accounts to Outlook Outlook Express is a simple email and newsgroup reader whose designers got the bright idea that "Outlook Express" was a cute name. They obviously didn't put much thought into the appropriateness of the name. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... because the .pst is set to open with word. I don't know how to reset it because, of all the things I CAN find, I can't find what appears to be a straight Outlook app in the "open with" choices. What is the difference between Outlook (2003), outlook connector and outlook express. Isn't express outlook light? I've worked on and changed into so many systems, I'm lucky to be able to turn my computers on. Thanks. "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: why are you using word or xml to open the pst? You need to use outlook to view the contents as contents. Using anything else will get you a file full of garbage characters. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have had autoarchive unchecked for Inbox and Sent Mail under tools/options. I have had Do Not Archive checked for Inbox and Sent Mail under right-click properties. I use XP Pro Outlook 2003. So now I know how to run scanpst. It then said it repaired my 212,361 KB file and when I open it, it looks something like ASCII, whether I use Word or XML. There must be an obvious correction or step I am missing because I am not that thick ... I think. Or maybe I am overthinking. Gwyneth "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: If you have autoarchive every xx days unchecked in tools, options, other tab, autoarchive, its not outlook doing it. Plus if you have it checked and its not set for daily, its not outlook doing it. Also check the folder properties - right click on the sent folder, properties. Look on the archive tab. If that is set to not archive, it won't be archived if you leave the global setting on. What type of email account do you use? Did you run scanpst on the pst you can't open? What errors do you get when you try to open it? -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have read through the threads, looked at the instruction manual, tapped into every possible (I think) angle related to turning off the autoarchive feature in Office 2003 XP and I still lose everything in the Sent folder if I leave it overnight. I have to manually move a Sent e-mail if I want to keep it. I have gone into the Tools/Options and clicked, unclicked, reclicked, clicked this and not that and still come up with NOTHING but an empty Sent folder! And I have a 193MG Outlook.pst file that I cannot open, view or sort. Nor is there anything in my auto-created Archive folders. I think I am capable of deleting the e-mails I don't want to save. I am just not capable of making this program believe that. What more can I do other than go to a completely different OS when this thing becomes a real paperweight? |
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Turning off autoarchive once and for all
OK, I am an unobservant, illiterate twit! Well, maybe not completely, but I
must say what you all have been trying to tell me will probably work now. And I can actually concentrate on the real effort of opening my ".pst." I just now, in the process of "dusting" my computer, observed that in the list of McAfee's cleaning step, one of them was to clear out the Outlook Send folder. The archiving process never had a chance, because I have my computer cleaned every night and I had never really read the list. McAfee automatically just assumes you want everything dumped out of the delete (OK) and the send (not so OK) along with mopping up the recycle bin, clearing out the registry and a dozen other things. Having just put Abexo on my aging laptop and cleared out a stack of stuff I had not had done for a while (I should check its virus program), I thought I would do the same with the desktop and started with the virus program, which contains such a magic process. And I knew that. But never read the list - just watched it clean! Suffice it to say that I then checked my Outlook and - yeah - there it was: All cleaned out! I am once more humbled in the presence of IT greatness (my former IT colleague would laugh at that - she'd just stand by my computer and it would behave!) and apologize for sounding, shall we say, "grouchy." It is frustrating when I think I know how something should work and it doesn't. Too many ways something can become dysfunctional. Now maybe I can figure out exactly what that file is. Is it possible that that mysterious Outlook file is merely the composite of every e-mail that is in the program itself? And it grows because I don't delete a lot all the time? Should I just step away from the computer ...? Many thanks for your info and patience, everyone. Gwyneth "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Don't open it by double clicking - use File, Open, Outlook Data file. Outlook 2003 is an email, calendar and task application. Outlook connector is used to connect Hotmail and MSN email accounts to Outlook Outlook Express is a simple email and newsgroup reader whose designers got the bright idea that "Outlook Express" was a cute name. They obviously didn't put much thought into the appropriateness of the name. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... because the .pst is set to open with word. I don't know how to reset it because, of all the things I CAN find, I can't find what appears to be a straight Outlook app in the "open with" choices. What is the difference between Outlook (2003), outlook connector and outlook express. Isn't express outlook light? I've worked on and changed into so many systems, I'm lucky to be able to turn my computers on. Thanks. "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: why are you using word or xml to open the pst? You need to use outlook to view the contents as contents. Using anything else will get you a file full of garbage characters. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have had autoarchive unchecked for Inbox and Sent Mail under tools/options. I have had Do Not Archive checked for Inbox and Sent Mail under right-click properties. I use XP Pro Outlook 2003. So now I know how to run scanpst. It then said it repaired my 212,361 KB file and when I open it, it looks something like ASCII, whether I use Word or XML. There must be an obvious correction or step I am missing because I am not that thick ... I think. Or maybe I am overthinking. Gwyneth "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: If you have autoarchive every xx days unchecked in tools, options, other tab, autoarchive, its not outlook doing it. Plus if you have it checked and its not set for daily, its not outlook doing it. Also check the folder properties - right click on the sent folder, properties. Look on the archive tab. If that is set to not archive, it won't be archived if you leave the global setting on. What type of email account do you use? Did you run scanpst on the pst you can't open? What errors do you get when you try to open it? -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have read through the threads, looked at the instruction manual, tapped into every possible (I think) angle related to turning off the autoarchive feature in Office 2003 XP and I still lose everything in the Sent folder if I leave it overnight. I have to manually move a Sent e-mail if I want to keep it. I have gone into the Tools/Options and clicked, unclicked, reclicked, clicked this and not that and still come up with NOTHING but an empty Sent folder! And I have a 193MG Outlook.pst file that I cannot open, view or sort. Nor is there anything in my auto-created Archive folders. I think I am capable of deleting the e-mails I don't want to save. I am just not capable of making this program believe that. What more can I do other than go to a completely different OS when this thing becomes a real paperweight? |
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Turning off autoarchive once and for all
Thanks for letting us know about mcafee's settings. We'll know to ask about
it next time someone has a problem like yours. As for the mysterious file, if it’s a *.pst, it is your email, calendar and contacts - and yes it will grow as you get more mail and don't delete the old. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... OK, I am an unobservant, illiterate twit! Well, maybe not completely, but I must say what you all have been trying to tell me will probably work now. And I can actually concentrate on the real effort of opening my ".pst." I just now, in the process of "dusting" my computer, observed that in the list of McAfee's cleaning step, one of them was to clear out the Outlook Send folder. The archiving process never had a chance, because I have my computer cleaned every night and I had never really read the list. McAfee automatically just assumes you want everything dumped out of the delete (OK) and the send (not so OK) along with mopping up the recycle bin, clearing out the registry and a dozen other things. Having just put Abexo on my aging laptop and cleared out a stack of stuff I had not had done for a while (I should check its virus program), I thought I would do the same with the desktop and started with the virus program, which contains such a magic process. And I knew that. But never read the list - just watched it clean! Suffice it to say that I then checked my Outlook and - yeah - there it was: All cleaned out! I am once more humbled in the presence of IT greatness (my former IT colleague would laugh at that - she'd just stand by my computer and it would behave!) and apologize for sounding, shall we say, "grouchy." It is frustrating when I think I know how something should work and it doesn't. Too many ways something can become dysfunctional. Now maybe I can figure out exactly what that file is. Is it possible that that mysterious Outlook file is merely the composite of every e-mail that is in the program itself? And it grows because I don't delete a lot all the time? Should I just step away from the computer ...? Many thanks for your info and patience, everyone. Gwyneth "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Don't open it by double clicking - use File, Open, Outlook Data file. Outlook 2003 is an email, calendar and task application. Outlook connector is used to connect Hotmail and MSN email accounts to Outlook Outlook Express is a simple email and newsgroup reader whose designers got the bright idea that "Outlook Express" was a cute name. They obviously didn't put much thought into the appropriateness of the name. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... because the .pst is set to open with word. I don't know how to reset it because, of all the things I CAN find, I can't find what appears to be a straight Outlook app in the "open with" choices. What is the difference between Outlook (2003), outlook connector and outlook express. Isn't express outlook light? I've worked on and changed into so many systems, I'm lucky to be able to turn my computers on. Thanks. "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: why are you using word or xml to open the pst? You need to use outlook to view the contents as contents. Using anything else will get you a file full of garbage characters. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have had autoarchive unchecked for Inbox and Sent Mail under tools/options. I have had Do Not Archive checked for Inbox and Sent Mail under right-click properties. I use XP Pro Outlook 2003. So now I know how to run scanpst. It then said it repaired my 212,361 KB file and when I open it, it looks something like ASCII, whether I use Word or XML. There must be an obvious correction or step I am missing because I am not that thick ... I think. Or maybe I am overthinking. Gwyneth "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: If you have autoarchive every xx days unchecked in tools, options, other tab, autoarchive, its not outlook doing it. Plus if you have it checked and its not set for daily, its not outlook doing it. Also check the folder properties - right click on the sent folder, properties. Look on the archive tab. If that is set to not archive, it won't be archived if you leave the global setting on. What type of email account do you use? Did you run scanpst on the pst you can't open? What errors do you get when you try to open it? -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have read through the threads, looked at the instruction manual, tapped into every possible (I think) angle related to turning off the autoarchive feature in Office 2003 XP and I still lose everything in the Sent folder if I leave it overnight. I have to manually move a Sent e-mail if I want to keep it. I have gone into the Tools/Options and clicked, unclicked, reclicked, clicked this and not that and still come up with NOTHING but an empty Sent folder! And I have a 193MG Outlook.pst file that I cannot open, view or sort. Nor is there anything in my auto-created Archive folders. I think I am capable of deleting the e-mails I don't want to save. I am just not capable of making this program believe that. What more can I do other than go to a completely different OS when this thing becomes a real paperweight? |
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Turning off autoarchive once and for all
Well, I spoke too soon. The McAfee list was news to me, but it hasn't stopped
the disappearing "Sent" e-mails. This is very bizarre. Both the Inbox and the Sent folder are set to "Do not archive" in the properties menu. Does the box that notes network administrator retention policies have any bearing? I am my own little home network and that box says the administrator has not set retention but I can do nothing with it unless I determine archiving - which is set to Do not .... Any other ideas? "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Thanks for letting us know about mcafee's settings. We'll know to ask about it next time someone has a problem like yours. As for the mysterious file, if it’s a *.pst, it is your email, calendar and contacts - and yes it will grow as you get more mail and don't delete the old. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... OK, I am an unobservant, illiterate twit! Well, maybe not completely, but I must say what you all have been trying to tell me will probably work now. And I can actually concentrate on the real effort of opening my ".pst." I just now, in the process of "dusting" my computer, observed that in the list of McAfee's cleaning step, one of them was to clear out the Outlook Send folder. The archiving process never had a chance, because I have my computer cleaned every night and I had never really read the list. McAfee automatically just assumes you want everything dumped out of the delete (OK) and the send (not so OK) along with mopping up the recycle bin, clearing out the registry and a dozen other things. Having just put Abexo on my aging laptop and cleared out a stack of stuff I had not had done for a while (I should check its virus program), I thought I would do the same with the desktop and started with the virus program, which contains such a magic process. And I knew that. But never read the list - just watched it clean! Suffice it to say that I then checked my Outlook and - yeah - there it was: All cleaned out! I am once more humbled in the presence of IT greatness (my former IT colleague would laugh at that - she'd just stand by my computer and it would behave!) and apologize for sounding, shall we say, "grouchy." It is frustrating when I think I know how something should work and it doesn't. Too many ways something can become dysfunctional. Now maybe I can figure out exactly what that file is. Is it possible that that mysterious Outlook file is merely the composite of every e-mail that is in the program itself? And it grows because I don't delete a lot all the time? Should I just step away from the computer ...? Many thanks for your info and patience, everyone. Gwyneth "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Don't open it by double clicking - use File, Open, Outlook Data file. Outlook 2003 is an email, calendar and task application. Outlook connector is used to connect Hotmail and MSN email accounts to Outlook Outlook Express is a simple email and newsgroup reader whose designers got the bright idea that "Outlook Express" was a cute name. They obviously didn't put much thought into the appropriateness of the name. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... because the .pst is set to open with word. I don't know how to reset it because, of all the things I CAN find, I can't find what appears to be a straight Outlook app in the "open with" choices. What is the difference between Outlook (2003), outlook connector and outlook express. Isn't express outlook light? I've worked on and changed into so many systems, I'm lucky to be able to turn my computers on. Thanks. "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: why are you using word or xml to open the pst? You need to use outlook to view the contents as contents. Using anything else will get you a file full of garbage characters. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have had autoarchive unchecked for Inbox and Sent Mail under tools/options. I have had Do Not Archive checked for Inbox and Sent Mail under right-click properties. I use XP Pro Outlook 2003. So now I know how to run scanpst. It then said it repaired my 212,361 KB file and when I open it, it looks something like ASCII, whether I use Word or XML. There must be an obvious correction or step I am missing because I am not that thick ... I think. Or maybe I am overthinking. Gwyneth "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: If you have autoarchive every xx days unchecked in tools, options, other tab, autoarchive, its not outlook doing it. Plus if you have it checked and its not set for daily, its not outlook doing it. Also check the folder properties - right click on the sent folder, properties. Look on the archive tab. If that is set to not archive, it won't be archived if you leave the global setting on. What type of email account do you use? Did you run scanpst on the pst you can't open? What errors do you get when you try to open it? -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "GJS" wrote in message ... I have read through the threads, looked at the instruction manual, tapped into every possible (I think) angle related to turning off the autoarchive feature in Office 2003 XP and I still lose everything in the Sent folder if I leave it overnight. I have to manually move a Sent e-mail if I want to keep it. I have gone into the Tools/Options and clicked, unclicked, reclicked, clicked this and not that and still come up with NOTHING but an empty Sent folder! And I have a 193MG Outlook.pst file that I cannot open, view or sort. Nor is there anything in my auto-created Archive folders. I think I am capable of deleting the e-mails I don't want to save. I am just not capable of making this program believe that. What more can I do other than go to a completely different OS when this thing becomes a real paperweight? |
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