From the Tools menu, select Options . Click the Other tab, and then click AutoArchive . Select or deselect the first checkbox to enable or disable AutoArchive. To change the settings for individual folders (e.g., Inbox, Calendar, Sent Items , Tasks) right-click the folder and choose Properties, and then click the AutoArchive tab. Automatic archiving via Archive Policies. Instead, with an Online Archive, you'll be getting access to mailbox "Archive Policy" features in the following locations; Home tab-> Assign Policy. Right click menu on a message-> Assign Policy. Right click on a folder-> Properties-> tab Policy. Manage Rules & Alerts-> Action: apply retention policy. The default limit is 20GB in Outlook 2003/2007 and 50GB in Outlook 2010/2013/2016. A warning will display at 19GB and 47.5GB respectively. When the warning limit is reached, you won't be able to move items to this pst-file anymore (either manually or by using AutoArchive). If you don't want to empty your Deleted Items folder manually, To view or change the settings for automatic archiving, click the AutoArchive button to open the AutoArchive dialog box. Getting Acquainted with Outlook 2003: The Outlook Window: Starting and Exiting Outlook: Step 1: Open the Outlook email client on your local PC Step 2: In the Folder List, right-click the folder that you want to AutoArchive, and then click Properties. Step 3: Click the AutoArchive tab. Step 4: To set the AutoArchive properties for this folder, click to select Clean out items older than. They turned on AutoArchive and wanted to apply archive settings to all folders. After clicking on "apply these settings to all folders" the settings did not apply to these other folders. User is using Outlook XP. This works fine in Outlook 2003. 6. Selecting AutoArchive "Apply these settings to all folders"-do. 7. The AutoArchive feature has a two-step process. First, you turn on the AutoArchive feature. Second, you set the properties for the AutoArchive feature for each folder that you want archived. At the folder level, you can determine the items that are to be archived and how frequently they are archived. In the AutoArchive dialog box, please (1) check the Run AutoArchive every x day's option, (2) specify the AutoArchive settings as you need, and (3) click the Apply these settings to all folders now button. See screenshot: 4. Click the OK buttons successively to close both dialog boxes. We can try manually archiving: Go to FILE tab -> Info -> Cleanup Tools -> Archive, select the folders that you want to archive and archive criteria, click OK. Outlook should then archive the items based on the received date. The Archive .pst file As the Archive storage file, the .pst file may cause AutoArchive not working issue. Select Tools > Options and then select the Other tab. Select AutoArchive. Select the Run AutoArchive every XX days check box, and then specify how often to run AutoArchive. Select the options that you want. Click OK Options Explained: Run AutoArchive every Choose how often you want AutoArchive to run. Outlook 2003-2019/365 pst-files (Unicode) The default limit is 20GB in Outlook 2003/2007 and 50GB in Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and Microsoft 365. A warning will display at 19GB and 47.5GB respectively. When the warning limit is reached, you won't be able to move items to this pst-file anymore (either manually or by using AutoArchive). In the following wind