Outlook 2000 - Child folders don't inherit Auto-Archive stgs of Parent

[bfraser]

Hi all..

I just had one of our salesmen ask me to set his autoarchive up in Outlook 2000. He's done a very nice job of creating probably a hundred or more folders to store emails from customers, suppliers etc.

So, figuring it was standard practice, I just setup Auto-archive on the two main parents of all these sub-folders, Inbox and Clients. I forced an auto-archive run from the File menu and watched as nothing happened..

I cant find any box that specifies inheritance, and I really dont want to sit at his desk for 30 mins to select every single stinkin folder and set the auto-archive settings..

Is there a better way?

thanks,

Brett

 

[Rhort]

Why not just set the default AutoArchive (under Tools, Options, Other, AutoArchive) to the settings you want, then click on the 'Apply These Settings To All Folders Now' button? That will replicate it throughout the tree, and then you can go in and manually turn it off for any that you specifically don't want archived.