All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I can't see
them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

...Chip..

You might want to check your View settings, ie to show more than last 7 days
PS thought of Archiving?

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I can't see
them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..

Checked archive, all the folders in there were empty. Archiving was not
turned on, although Outlook does ask every once in a while.

Never thought to look in view, there is an option to show "last 7 days".

Thanks!

...Chip..

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
You might want to check your View settings, ie to show more than last 7
days
PS thought of Archiving?

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in
the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I can't see
them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..

I meant perhaps turn Archive on, might make life easier, re organising your
inbox

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
Checked archive, all the folders in there were empty. Archiving was not
turned on, although Outlook does ask every once in a while.

Never thought to look in view, there is an option to show "last 7 days".

Thanks!

..Chip..

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
You might want to check your View settings, ie to show more than last 7
days
PS thought of Archiving?

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in
the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I can't
see
them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..

Your probably right. Even with archive off I am asked (on my PC) and I will
tell it yes once in a while, but there is nothing in those folders. ??

No big deal, as I copy the .PST file off the drive daily for backup
purposes.

Thanks.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
I meant perhaps turn Archive on, might make life easier, re organising your
inbox

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
Checked archive, all the folders in there were empty. Archiving was not
turned on, although Outlook does ask every once in a while.

Never thought to look in view, there is an option to show "last 7 days".

Thanks!

..Chip..

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
You might want to check your View settings, ie to show more than last 7
days
PS thought of Archiving?

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in
the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I can't
see
them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..

In ,
Charles Shapiro typed:
Checked archive, all the folders in there were empty. Archiving was
not turned on, although Outlook does ask every once in a while.

Never thought to look in view, there is an option to show "last 7
days".
Thanks!

.....you need to do some housekeeping. You shouldn't have that many items in
any folder - create subfolders and start filing.Outlook's performance will
be a lot better, for one thing - more than 5k items in a folder, and it
turns to sludge. Personally, since I view the inbox as a 'tickler' I don't
like to close Outlook at the end of the day with more than a handful of
messages in it.


..Chip..

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
You might want to check your View settings, ie to show more than
last 7 days
PS thought of Archiving?

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in
the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I
can't see them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..

Actually this is not my PC, but a friends that is not Users Group
experienced, so I sent this message on her behalf. I have talked to her
about the # of messages and she works at cleaning it up , but gets' 100's a
day and can never seem to get a handle on it.

I will tell her again, she should keep folders down to less than 5k.

Thanks.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
ahoo.com wrote in message
...
In ,
Charles Shapiro typed:
Checked archive, all the folders in there were empty. Archiving was
not turned on, although Outlook does ask every once in a while.

Never thought to look in view, there is an option to show "last 7
days".
Thanks!

....you need to do some housekeeping. You shouldn't have that many items
in any folder - create subfolders and start filing.Outlook's performance
will be a lot better, for one thing - more than 5k items in a folder, and
it turns to sludge. Personally, since I view the inbox as a 'tickler' I
don't like to close Outlook at the end of the day with more than a handful
of messages in it.


..Chip..

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
You might want to check your View settings, ie to show more than
last 7 days
PS thought of Archiving?

"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in
the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I
can't see them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..

Charles,

Try creating a new folder called Hold or something like that and move 16,990
message to that folder. I have thousands but never in the inbox. If it gets
up to 100 I tend to panic.
"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I can't see
them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..

But if you archived you would still have access to the archive, within OL if
you had it open

"Chuck Davis" newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com wrote in message
...
Charles,

Try creating a new folder called Hold or something like that and move
16,990
message to that folder. I have thousands but never in the inbox. If it
gets
up to 100 I tend to panic.
"Charles Shapiro" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden Outlook (2003) will only show 7 days worth of mail in
the
Inbox. At the bottom is says there are 17,000 messages, but I can't see
them.

I have checked all the options I know to check.

What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

..Chip..