The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools -- Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Probably you'd be able to do that with some VBA code, or select all of the
items of one folder and drag them to a folder in the Windows Explorer. But
are you sure you want to go that way? If the company rule is legal and you
break that I'd fire you.

--
Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool:
: http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en


Am Wed, 7 May 2008 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT) schrieb :

The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools -- Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

wrote:

The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools -- Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?

Are you able to create a PST? If so, do that and manually copy your data to
that PST.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Hello Phoenix,

Inorder to store your selected e-mails to your local computer, you can
create a new pst file ( Filenewoutlook data file). You can then drag and
drop the folders.
The only reasons why i find archieving is blocked may be due to storage
limitations.

Hope this works.
Have a nice day:-)

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



Probably you'd be able to do that with some VBA code, or select all of the
items of one folder and drag them to a folder in the Windows Explorer. But
are you sure you want to go that way? If the company rule is legal and you
break that I'd fire you.

--
Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool:
: http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en


Am Wed, 7 May 2008 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT) schrieb :

The company I work for has disabled archiving for Outlook (2003).
They also do a mail purge at intervals. (Under Tools -- Options, the
Archive feature does not show.) I understand they have security
reasons for this, but, with no malicious intent, I'd prefer to be able
to save my old e-mails to my local PC. (They are currently saved on a
shared company server.)

Without trying to get in deep and mess around with the company
settings for my PC, is there any kind of reasonable work-around to
export or save e-mails (without having to individually save thousands
of e-mails from a couple of hundred folders?). I can't find a
workaround, but maybe someone knows a trick I don't know.

And, whatever approach anyone can offer (if any), can it be done in a
way that the company doesn't instantly spot it and hammer me?