Outlook 2007 doesn't archive old email, only makes empty directory structures

Question

I'm trying to archive a lot of email from my inbox with a lot of subdirectories.

When I try to archive and select a date before 01-01-2008, the program says it will archive, the only thing is that the complete directory structure is archived without the email, can someone explain me why this is?

Any help would be great!

Solution

We have this happen with Alt-N Mdeamon and Outlook. In this case it will only archive items according to when the cache was built and not when the email was originally created i.e. if you rebuild the cache today, and then you set your archive to archive anything over 1 month old, it will not archive a single thing until 1 month passes. Then it should sort itself out and just leave you 1 month of emails in the current directories. It seems to build the directory structure straight away regardless of this. I do know that if you manually move the emails to the archive that this works.

And, I'm sorry if this doesn't apply to you in anyway!

Comments

[Chris]

Great answer, it looks indeed to the last day opened. When the email is openend recently, it will be flagged with an new date.