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How to archive Outlook mails
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Updated onJuly 3, 2024
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Archiving your emails helps you save your emails and their data for later use. It also makes it easy to quickly look up your files when you need to find them. Additionally, it can also come in handy inabrupt data losseswhere you might otherwise end up losing your critical information.
It makes sense, then, to archive your emails regularly. This article looks at how you can do that without any hassles. So let’s dive right in.
How to archive Outlook emails
Before you begin to archive your Outlook emails, it’s essential to understand that moving your Outlook emails to archived emails is different for different Outlook setups.
For instance, if you’re using Outlook Web you’ll simply move your emails from your inbox to the Archive mailbox. On the other hand, if you’re on the Outlook desktop app, archiving your emails can also be about moving your emails from the mail inbox folder to theArchivefolder. So let’s look at both procedures.
How to archive emails on Outlook desktop
To archive your emails on Outlook desktop, you can use theAutoArchivefeature in the Outlook app. Made available for free from Outlook, when you’ve enabled this feature, your emails will be archived automatically after a specified period of time. Pretty handy, right? Here’s how you can set up this feature:
That’s it — your Outlook emails will be archived as per your specified settings. If you want to disable the Outlook feature in the future, all you’ve to do is uncheck theRun AutoArchive everyradio box again and save your settings—the archive feature will be disabled.
How to archive email on Outlook Web
Archiving your emails on Outlook web is a straightforward affair; much simpler than for Outlook desktop surely. To get started with it, follow the steps below:
All the selected emails will be archived instantly. If you want to unarchive them later on, head to theArchivefolder and select the email. Then click onMove from the top, and choose the location where you want to move your emails.
Archiving your Outlook emails with ease
So that was all about archiving your emails on Outlook, folks. Archiving your files can be super helpful tokeep your files protected against accidental data lossesand help you pull up your emails instantly. I hope you were able to archive your email successfully after this.To learn more, we have a great guide on how toapply AutoArchive settings to subfolders in Outlook, so don’t miss it.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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