thank you so much, I changed the setting.

On getting the old stuff back: when I pressed 'ok' to open the archive file,
I was brought back to the outlook today page but nothing seemed different
than my normal everyday view, and nothing is showing in the calendar still
for the time when it was autoarchived. I did note that permanently deleting
the files was not checked - is there something else I can do to get my old
appts back?

"Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Right click on the Calendar folder, choose Properties and go to the
AutoArchive tab and change the configuration there. The 'deleted' items
might be in the Calendar folder of your Archive PST file. Go to the File
menu Open Outlook Data File command and open your archive PST file and
see if the entries are there. You can drag/drop them into your regular
Calendar folder

"qtpa2t" wrote in message
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and is there a way to get back what it deleted??