The more folders, the more painful this becomes. If you want to do this by date in Outlook 2011, you need to touch every folder.
Makes sense, no? The problem is there are some of us who create subfolders in the inbox. Most will choose to archive their oldest emails. There’s a few guidelines I can offer on how to best tell which mail is suitable for archiving, but this will vary from person to person. Lastly, after importing this mail back into Outlook, we need to delete the mail from your inbox to free the space.ĭetermining what mail needs to go into the archive involves a bit of planning. Secondly, we need to process these emails and export them from Outlook To best proceed let me outline the major steps we’ll be going through, then I’ll delve into detail on each.įirstly, we need to discern which emails will be labeled as those we are to archive Yes, I’m sorry, the Internet is not as kind as we’d like. Solutions I’ve found online do not protect you in this manner and leave open the possibility of losing everything. It takes a bit of diligence, as there are a few steps involved, but if you follow them you’ll not only accomplish the intended goal, you’ll effectively create a backup of your archived mail as well. Getting those emails stating your mailbox is full? Not getting mail because of it? Tech Support urging you to archive but you aren’t sure how to because you use Outlook 2011? Fear not! There’s a solution.
