The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Re: Archive workaround!? by Michael

Michael
Wed May 07 22:27:23 PDT 2008



Probably you'd be able to do that with some VBA code, or select all of the
items of one folder and drag them to a folder in the Windows Explorer. But
are you sure you want to go that way? If the company rule is legal and you
break that I'd fire you.

--
Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool:
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Am Wed, 7 May 2008 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Phoenix8172@yahoo.com:

> The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
> They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
> Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
> reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
> to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
> shared company server.)
>
> Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
> settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
> export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
> of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
> workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.
>
> And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
> way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Re: Archive workaround!? by Brian

Brian
Thu May 08 05:01:52 PDT 2008

Phoenix8172@yahoo.com <Phoenix8172@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
> They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
> Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
> reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
> to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
> shared company server.)
>
> Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
> settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
> export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
> of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
> workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.
>
> And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
> way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Are you able to create a PST? If so, do that and manually copy your data to
that PST.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


Re: Archive workaround!? by Raj

Raj
Thu May 08 05:16:00 PDT 2008

Hello Phoenix,

Inorder to store your selected e-mails to your local computer, you can
create a new pst file ( File>new>outlook data file). You can then drag and
drop the folders.
The only reasons why i find archieving is blocked may be due to storage
limitations.

Hope this works.
Have a nice day:-)

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

>
>
> Probably you'd be able to do that with some VBA code, or select all of the
> items of one folder and drag them to a folder in the Windows Explorer. But
> are you sure you want to go that way? If the company rule is legal and you
> break that I'd fire you.
>
> --
> Best regards
> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
>
> : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool:
> : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>
>
>
> Am Wed, 7 May 2008 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Phoenix8172@yahoo.com:
>
> > The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
> > They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools --> Options, the
> > Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
> > reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
> > to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
> > shared company server.)
> >
> > Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
> > settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
> > export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
> > of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
> > workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.
> >
> > And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
> > way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?
>