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Well — I’d do that if I could find the .pst file! I did a search on *.pst and found nothing.
>may have deleted some items permanently
Ooops! How do I fix that? Or are you referring to items which I manually deleted? And of course, to add to the problem, I’ve used 3 different machines (one Mac, a desktop PC and this laptop — who knows which machine I was using when I “saved” the messages I though I had?

OK — I checked that out and I had set autoarchive to 14 days, and 6 mo for clean out items older than… and move them to an archive folder. During Auto Archive I have all three checked (delete expired items (e-mail folders only), archive or delete old items, and show archive folder in folder list. The only thing I’m really concerned about is the “personal” folders I’ve set up within my Inbox folder. These are various categories where I save email messages that I might want to access later (i.e. one is “Reading List” with recommendations from my librarian listserv; another is messages relating to my genealogy research) There is a message in the genealogy folder dated 7 Jan 2004 but other than that, they’re all “younger” than 6 mo. (altho’ there are many “older” than 14 days). Some folders are emptier than I thought they would be — have I inadvertently auto-deleted my messages I thought I was saving??

OK — I checked that out and I had set autoarchive to 14 days, and 6 mo for clean out items older than… and move them to an archive folder. During Auto Archive I have all three checked (delete expired items (e-mail folders only), archive or delete old items, and show archive folder in folder list. The only thing I’m really concerned about is the “personal” folders I’ve set up within my Inbox folder. These are various categories where I save email messages that I might want to access later (i.e. one is “Reading List” with recommendations from my librarian listserv; another is messages relating to my genealogy research) There is a message in the genealogy folder dated 7 Jan 2004 but other than that, they’re all “younger” than 6 mo. (altho’ there are many “older” than 14 days). Some folders are emptier than I thought they would be — have I inadvertently auto-deleted my messages I thought I was saving??

Not sure if this is the right place to post this (I’m using Outlook as part of Office XP, not 2000) but Andrew’s “can of worms” comment reminded me of something I’d like to do and haven’t figured out how, yet, in Outlook (in Entourage, the Mac version of Outlook, it’s easy) — that is to set a time for deleting items from your Sent and Inbox folders. I used to have Entourage set to delete all Sent messages older than 30 days, and all inbox messages older than 3 days. I would manually delete most of my inbox messages but kept one category/sender (listserv) of messages so they were readily available if someone asked (in the 3-day time span) “Did anyone save that message about XXX from YYY?” I don’t see any way to set up this “Auto-delete” function. (Just checked my Inbox size (which contains a number of categorized (personal?) folders, and it totals 1800 KB — still a long way from 2GB!)

Not sure if this is the right place to post this (I’m using Outlook as part of Office XP, not 2000) but Andrew’s “can of worms” comment reminded me of something I’d like to do and haven’t figured out how, yet, in Outlook (in Entourage, the Mac version of Outlook, it’s easy) — that is to set a time for deleting items from your Sent and Inbox folders. I used to have Entourage set to delete all Sent messages older than 30 days, and all inbox messages older than 3 days. I would manually delete most of my inbox messages but kept one category/sender (listserv) of messages so they were readily available if someone asked (in the 3-day time span) “Did anyone save that message about XXX from YYY?” I don’t see any way to set up this “Auto-delete” function. (Just checked my Inbox size (which contains a number of categorized (personal?) folders, and it totals 1800 KB — still a long way from 2GB!)

OK — I’ll stay with Outlook as the e-mail program, since it does everything I want (at least so far!) I’ll keep doing my usual checking with AdAware, SpyBot, and Norton I’net Security and hope that nothing drastic happens!!

OK — I’ll stay with Outlook as the e-mail program, since it does everything I want (at least so far!) I’ll keep doing my usual checking with AdAware, SpyBot, and Norton I’net Security and hope that nothing drastic happens!!

OK — that finally got rid of the warning dialog box. I now have Outlook XP as my e-mail program. What should I do to figure out why Word is causing the problem? Could it be that Word is the “program that is trying to access your address book”?

OK — that finally got rid of the warning dialog box. I now have Outlook XP as my e-mail program. What should I do to figure out why Word is causing the problem? Could it be that Word is the “program that is trying to access your address book”?

Ok — I’ll definitely select “No” for now. I just followed the directions from the Outlook Help menu to make Outlook my default mail client, closed the app., then re-opened and selected Ctrl-N for a new message, and it still opened Word as my e-mail program and the error dialog box showed up again. Don’t have a clue what could be happening, except I did add another contact to my list today (but I don’t remember back to Wed. when this started happening!)

Ok — I’ll definitely select “No” for now. I just followed the directions from the Outlook Help menu to make Outlook my default mail client, closed the app., then re-opened and selected Ctrl-N for a new message, and it still opened Word as my e-mail program and the error dialog box showed up again. Don’t have a clue what could be happening, except I did add another contact to my list today (but I don’t remember back to Wed. when this started happening!)

Thanks — I’m relieved, altho’ I can’t figure out why it started doing it quite some time after I began using Outlook! Is there any way to avoid this? I’m running Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, Norton Personal Firewall, Norton Anti-virus. Gads — am I paranoid or what?!!

Thanks — I’m relieved, altho’ I can’t figure out why it started doing it quite some time after I began using Outlook! Is there any way to avoid this? I’m running Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, Norton Personal Firewall, Norton Anti-virus. Gads — am I paranoid or what?!!

Wonderful!! That’s exactly what I was looking for, but I would never have thought of applying “filter” to an incoming message condition. Many thanks.
Joyce

Wonderful!! That’s exactly what I was looking for, but I would never have thought of applying “filter” to an incoming message condition. Many thanks.
Joyce