qtpa2t wrote:

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?

Did you examine the Folder List view to see if the archive PST was listed?
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Brian Tillman