I realised that I do quite a lot of extraordinary things on a regular basis, but don't write them down for posterity. Take today for instance. My colleagues asked me a question "I have organised my folders nicely, and I want to copy just the folders to my archives, without any emails. How do I do that?"
A quick Google search revealed that no one had managed to just copy the folders alone. One method was close, but it required deleting all the emails after that. What a bore! So I looked at the self-help out there, and came up with this brilliant method, for use in Outlook 2007:
1) Find out what is the date of the oldest email in the Outlook mailbox/archive you want to copy.
2) Go to File -> Archive
3) Select the radio button for "Archive this folder and all subfolders"
4) Select the Outlook mailbox/archive you want to copy
5) Just below the white box with all the Outlook mailbox/archives, there should be the option to "Archive all emails older than". Select a date before the date of the oldest email in the Outlook mailbox/archive you want to copy.
6) Click OK
7) If all goes well, you should have a new archive with only the folders inside!
The best part about this is that you can now share your folder structure with other people by copying the .pst file you've created.
I feel like such a genius =D
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