Thank you for replying. I can't find, under View at the top of the Outlook window, anything that says "navigation." (There's Current View, Go To, Outlook Bar, Folder List, Auto Preview, Reminders Window, Tool Bar and Status Bar; those have extensions, but nothing with "navigation" in its name.)
But when I click on the dropdown menu when I'm checking my Inbox, so I can get to the Calendar, Sent Box, Drafts, Deleted Items, etc., there are two folders named "Archive Folders." I figured that's where the old emails I didn't want either to lose or keep in my active boxes would go, but they are both empty. (I could move emails I want to keep from either the In Box or the Sent Box into those folders, doing it one at a time, but I think they would still count as clutter to Outlook. (Do you think so?) In any case, those folders are not where the old emails I've said Yes to archiving went!
The thing is, I was given, on CL, a link to Outlook Backup and Archive Procedures (Kellogg Information Systems) that to a technologically normal person would undoubtedly clear up the mystery. I've spent enough time trying to figure it out that I know it's not going to do that in my, er, challenged case. Probably I'll have to pay a tech guy to come here and explain it to me.
This line from the Kellogg site is what makes me nervous:
Over time, this .pst file can fill up with received email messages and attachments. Eventually, this file can become so large that Outlook will crash frequently, or worse yet, crash and corrupt the data contained within the .pst file.
The periodic reminders that issue similar warnings are also unhelpful, given that when I click Yes, it's just as though I've deleted the darned things.
I'm having no email troubles at all (or any computer problems at all, so far, since I got rid of my Gateway and got a Dell.) But I'd like to know what to do.
Anyway, thank you for trying. Maybe you could tell me where the navigation pane is, and whether you do think it would help me find the old, archived emails if I found it? |
