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I am running Outlook Professional 2010 with an exchange account. I archived old items, thinking it was a local operation, only to find that the emails were removed from the server too! Now I am checking the .pst file from my pc. The email in the inbox seem to be there, but I cannot find the sent items (and I am interested mostly in the attachments).
Have they been deleted? In the cleanup setting I don't see anything about deleting.
AutoArchive moves messages and other outlook items from the server to a PST file. This includes sent items and items in any folders created on the server. The process will move items from folders in the mailbox on the server to identical folders in the PST. So messages in the sent items on the server will be in the sent items folder on the PST – thilina R – 2015-04-28T21:55:49.637
I did open data file, found the archive, and now I see the inbox under "archives", but no sent items (or drafts, which I don't care). In the archives I only have Deleted Items (empty, no big deal), inbox, search folders – laika – 2015-04-28T22:05:41.127
Can you add a screenshot of your auto archive settings in the question? – thilina R – 2015-04-28T22:36:17.327
@slayernoah updated – laika – 2015-04-28T22:52:15.087
Unless company policy prohibits, you can set Outlook to either store folders and files on the server or in a local PST file. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/seanearp/archive/2010/01/24/creating-a-pst-in-outlook-2010.aspx. This is not of immediate use, but could help prevent that issue in the future.
– DrMoishe Pippik – 2015-04-28T23:32:45.677At the end I found it, it was archived on another computer – laika – 2015-04-29T09:17:36.123