Wow. Where does all this hostility come from? I thought I was being
helpful but mainly was celebrating the fact that I can now do something I've
wanted to do for a long time. I don't really know why you think I'm the
writer of the program; as you point out, there's no reason for the
programmer not to say who he or she is. And no, I'm not the programmer and,
in fact, don't know how to program. (If I did I could have saved myself a
lot of aggravation.)

I had more than 47,000 messages in my .pst file. Fine with me if you want
to say that I'm silly for having so many messages and that I clearly don't
know how to use Outlook properly. But the simple fact of the matter is that
I wanted to archive all the old ones and wasn't able to do so, no matter how
many times I tried. I started searching user groups to see what I was doing
wrong and found out about the Modifed Date (which I had never heard of,
since it doesn't display be default) and how it governs archiving, but how
there isn't a way to change it. I kept searching for a solution but then
got distracted by other concerns for a few months.

The other day I did a search for "Outlook, archive, 'modified date'" and
came up with listings for this program. I tried it, it did what I wanted,
and I was so elated that I posted messages at 3 newsgroups. (I actually
posted here twice, by mistake, because I got an error message after my first
post, only to see later that it actually went through successfully.)

I appreciate your advance apology but don't particularly need it because you
haven't harmed me. In fact, perhaps you made yourself look a little silly
for reacting so strongly to something so innocuous. In any event, I assume
you're just trying to do the right thing. But if I understand your post
correctly, and you're suggesting that my IP and the location of the
developer added to your suspicion, I would only point out to you that there
are, what, like 8 million people in New York City so I guess I don't find it
as curious a coincidence as you do.

But I certainly will, if I ever feel compelled to share an opinion here
again, include lots and lots of disclaimers. Frankly, I'm not a frequent
poster and am apparently a bit naive about this group. I am a member of a
few user groups where everyone is so polite to one another, and helpful at
the drop of a hat, that I didn't realize I was taking my life into my hands
here...

You better contact the company for your free license - I certainly can't
help you out there!



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message
...
"I'm so glad someone finally did this! Stephen"

Listen up bub - if you are the programmer of this add-in... and I WILL find
out if you are... then you have no business trying the "ooh, guess what I
found that really works!" ploy here. Just ask around.

If you have an add-in that you want to advertise, then put an ADV in front
of your post, tell folks that you work for the company that made the add-in
and then extol its virtues. No one here objects to that and many find some
of the items advertised quite useful.

However, if you are indeed the programmer or work for the company that
programmed this add-in, then you should be ashamed of yourself for all of
this false self-promotion. You do yourself and all honest add-in developers
a great disservice by lying about what you "found" (on your own hard drive,
or a company server). You didn't "find" anything except a way to promote
your product with lies and obfuscation.

Not a good way to start out I might add.

Now for the disclaimer - I don't work for Microsoft, nor any software
company, the opinions expressed are my own and if I made a mistake in my
assessment based on your IP and the company's HQ, then I apologize.

If I am correct however, I would expect at least an apology to the users of
this forum and an honest post that can regale us with the wonders and
usefulness heretofore unseen that your add-in will add to Outlook, and an
acknowledgement that you are, or work for, the producers of this software.
That does a lot to ameliorate what you tried here tonight.

Dishonesty and disingenuousness are a bad way to start off a business trying
to sell something to people - it makes you look suspicious and your software
less worthy.

Now, can I have a free license? (gd&rvvf!)

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Stephen asked:

| I finally found something I've been looking for for a long time so
| figured I'd share it. If you've ever had Outlook fail to archive
| because it had moved messages' Modified Dates forward making them
| ineligible for the cutoff you specified, you'll want to take a look
| at ArchiveAssist for Outlook. This app lets you edit the Modified
| Date of messages to any date you want (you can select the Received
| Date, the Sent Date, or you can specify any date), and you have
| complete control over the process by which you decide which messages
| to include for modification. The program also lets you to delete
| messages, in bulk, according to the date parameters you set in one
| easy step - a great change from the ten step process I used to go
| through in Outlook.
|
| The program runs outside of Outlook, which I like, and it says that
| it works with all versions from 97 up. Check it out at
| http://www.cardiffsoft.com
|
| There's a free 30-day trial version available and the app costs only
| $19.00 to purchase. I was finally able to cut the size of my .pst
| file, which was in excess of 1GB, and things are running more
| smoothly. No freezes since I archived...
|
| I'm so glad someone finally did this!
|
| Stephen