Understanding Archiving and Backup

I've found that Outlook users typically fall into several categories:

  • Clean Inbox Users— These users either delete or file any message that comes into their inbox. They have a great organizational system and are always on top of their email.

  • Keep Everything Users— These users keep every email message they've ever received just in case they ever need it again.

  • Hybrid Users— These users keep all but the most trivial email messages and file the rest in user-created folders.

No matter what user type you fall into, it's likely that at some point, you'll need to archive your Outlook items. Your Personal Folders file will grow to the extent that you notice a significant performance hit in Outlook, or you'll run up ...

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