I found the archive...pst files/folder and, indeed, there were my old sent
messages.
Thanks to all of you for your responses and help. It is much appreciated.
This can be closed.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Open it in Outlook.

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After furious head scratching, beachlady1948 asked:

| Is it a file I can just open with a text editor or do I need to use
| the import (or some other feature) in Outlook?
|
| By the way, thanks for your help.
|
| "K. Orland" wrote:
|
|| That date should be the modified date which likely means the archive
|| file is current. You may want to open that and check for your
|| missing email.
||
|| --
|| Kathleen Orland
|| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|| http://www.howto-outlook.com/
||
||
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|| "beachlady1948" wrote:
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||| The only archive.pst I can find on my machine is dated today. That
||| won't help me, will it?
|||
||| "K. Orland" wrote:
|||
|||| Check the date on your archive.pst and also check your views to
|||| ensure you're not filtering.
||||
|||| --
|||| Kathleen Orland
|||| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|||| http://www.howto-outlook.com/
||||
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|||| "beachlady1948" wrote:
||||
||||| I think I did at one time but it has been a while. I can only
||||| find sent messages back for about 6 weeks.
|||||
||||| "K. Orland" wrote:
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|||||| Have you archived your emails?
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|||||| Kathleen Orland
|||||| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|||||| http://www.howto-outlook.com/
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|||||| "beachlady1948" wrote:
||||||
||||||| I believe I have Outlook 2003 and it isn't keeping even 16,000.
|||||||
||||||| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
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|||||||| beachlady1948 wrote:
||||||||
||||||||| I have been an Outlook user for a long time and run a
||||||||| business. It seems that my sent folder has not saved all my
||||||||| messages from more than about a month ago. It is important
||||||||| that I can retrieve my sent messages from many years ago. Is
||||||||| this a bug or do I need to set something to keep it from
||||||||| limiting how long or how many it will save?
||||||||
|||||||| Depending on Outlook version, which you don't mention, there
|||||||| may be a limit of 16,384 or 65,536 messages in the Sent Items
|||||||| folder. --
|||||||| Brian Tillman