Basically, An archive is a collection of documents and information. Archive option also appears in email services, Facebook, and Whatsapp. In Facebook, with archive option, you can download all Facebook account data and hide chat from the inbox. In Whatsapp, you can hide chat with the archived chat option. Similarly, in email services, you can hide emails from inbox with the archived email option.
Gmail (By Google) an Outlook (By Microsoft) are most popular email service providers. Both provide the Archive option to hide emails from the inbox. Though, Outlook provides the Archived folder to view archived emails later. But, Gmail doesn’t provide and folder for this. So, some users are facing the problems to find the archived emails.
If you don’t know what does archive mean and how to archive emails, then here is the complete guide on email archive. If you are facing any problem to find archived emails, then here is, Where do archived emails go and how to find these emails.
The archived Outlook items were moved from Outlook folder to the archive folder automatically when you set the archive function. Actually, you can restore archived items information back to the original folder or a new folder again. With this article, you will learn how to restore archived information in Outlook. Nov 09, 2016 The tutorial explains how to archive emails in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016 and other versions. You will learn how to configure each folder with its own auto archive settings or apply the same settings to all folders, how to archive in Outlook manually, and how to create archive folder if it doesn't appear automatically.
Contents
- 1 Where Do Archived Emails Go In Gmail?
- 2 Where Do Archived Emails Go In Outlook?
Where Do Archived Emails Go In Gmail?
After archiving the emails in Gmail, the emails will hide from the inbox. But, Gmail doesn’t provide any special folder for archived emails. That’s why some users cannot find emails easily.
Gmail provides the “All Mail” folder/label. Which contains all emails (Inbox, sent mail, draft etc.). So, Your archived emails also go in All mail folder/label. You need to find for that particular email. Because all emails are shown in this folder.
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Mcmyadmin pro license keygen. You can also do this on Gmail app. Swipe from the left on the screen and tap on the All Mail option. After that, find your email.
Tip: When you open All Mail folder, All emails show their label/folder. Archived email doesn’t show any label. So, this helps to find email easily.
The main drawback is that, sometimes, it is a bit difficult to find an email in All mail label. Because so many emails are there inside this label.
How To Unarchive emails in Gmail?On Desktop: To unarchive email in Gmail, open archived email from ‘All mail‘ folder or label. After that, Click on “Move to inbox” option. Now the email will again show in the inbox.
On Gmail App: Gmail app is also allowing us to do this. Open All Mail label/folder by swipe the screen from the left and tap on the All Mail option. Find and open any Archived email and tap on the three vertical dots from the top right of the screen. After that, tap on the “Move to inbox” option.
Where Do Archived Emails Go In Outlook?
It is easy to find archived emails in Outlook. Because outlook provides the folder for this. When you archive an email, then, it moves to the Archived folder and hides from the inbox. So, you can also use this option to save your important emails. After that, you can easily find those emails.
Outlook provides the “Archive” folder. So, click on Archive from the left side of the screen to open archived emails. It is not a difficult to find the email like Gmail. This option is also available in Windows 10 outlook Mail app.
How To Unarchive emails in Outlook?Open the archived email from Archive folder and click on the ‘Move To‘ option from the top. After that, click on the inbox to move email in the inbox folder (You can move emails to any folder). These steps are same for Windows 10 Outlook App.
Final Words
So, guys, this is the guide on ‘where do archived emails go‘. If you don’t know about this and accidentally archived your email then, this guide may helpful for you. Though, it is not a difficult task. But, some users search online for this.
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How to access archived emails in Outlook?
As we know, after archiving a folder in Outlook, older items in the folder are moved into archives folder. Sometimes, you may need to find out older emails or appointments, so that you need to open the archives folder. In this article, I will introduce how to access archived emails easily in Outlook.
Access archived emails from Navigation Pane
Access archived emails whose folders are not in the Navigation Pane
Archive Outlook items across multiple accounts into a data file with an amazing tool
Access archived emails from Navigation Pane
If you have opened the archived .pst file already in Microsoft Outlook, just shift to the Mail view, and then click to open the Archives folder or its subfolders in the Navigation pane. Then you can see the archived emails.
Access archived emails whose folders are not in the Navigation Pane
If you have not opened the archived .pst file in Microsoft Outlook, you need to open the archive folder before accessing archived emails.
Step 1: Click the File > Open & Export > Open Outlook Data File in Outlook 2013 and the newer version.
Note: In Outlook 2010 you need to click the File > Open > Open Outlook Data File, while in Outlook 2007 click the File > Open > Outlook Data File.
Step 2: In the Open Outlook Data File dialog box, find out and select the archived .pst file, and then click the OK button.
Step 3: Shift to the Mail view, and click to open the Archives Folder or its subfolders in the Navigation Pane. Then you can access all archived emails easily.
Note: Apart from archived emails, you can get the archived calendars, contacts, items, notes, etc. with pressing Ctrl + 6 keys simultaneously to show the folder list, and then click corresponding folders under Archives in the Navigation Pane.
Archive Outlook items across multiple accounts into a data file with an amazing tool
Here introduce an amazing tool – the Merge folders into data file feature of Kutools for Outlook for you. This tool can help to archive emails in different folders across accounts into a single data file.
Before applying the Kutools for Outlook, please download and install it firstly.
1. Click Kutools Plus > Merge folders into data file to enable the feature.
2. Then the Merge multiple folders into a data file window pops up, click the Add button to choose the folders you will archive.
Note: a dialog box will open at the same time to tell you this feature does not support the IMAP and Exchange account, please click OK to close it.
3. In the Please select folders window, check the folders you will back up into a data file and then click OK to finish this step.
4. Then it returns to the Merge multiple folders into a data file window, please choose a data file or create a new data file to locate the selected folders. If you need, specify a date range for the items, keep the folder structure and name, and then click the OK button.
Now, all the folders you specified have been archived into the new data file and displayed in the Navigation Pane, you can go to the Folders view to check for folders, see screenshot:
How To Unarchive Emails In Outlook Web App
If you want to have a free trial ( 60-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
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After enabling auto archive function in your Outlook, an auto archive dialog box will display on time to remind you of archiving the items. If you don’t want to keep archiving for Outlook items any more, you can turn off the Outlook archive function. This tutorial will show you how to manually cancel or turn off the auto archive function in Outlook.
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By default, Outlook search emails in the current folder you are locating, you can also change to search all email folders in Outlook manually or automatically. But, if the archives folder does not show in the Navigation Pane, the searching won’t work for it, so you cannot search emails in the archive folders. With this tutorial, you will learn how to show the archive folder in the Navigation Pane and then search emails in it.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I opened my Archive folder, but it stops back in 2016.
There are no archived items for my new email address which I set up in Outlook this year.
Thanks. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you! Accidentally closed my Outlook folder and thought i'd lost all those emails!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi there,
I have an archive folder in Outlook 2007, after I switched to 2016 all archived folders were lost. Please help. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Try searching on this context
Go to this folder and see if you could find it in:
C:Usersyour_user_nameAppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlookarchive.pst
Check if it is there.
You may need to show 'hidden and system' in your folder view. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.same problem
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I have the same problem. Anyone help ?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I have windows 10 and outlook 2007 on my laptop, My older emails have suddenly disappeared but there is nothing in the archive folder. Is there anyplace else they would be? I did not delete them, they suddenly disappeared 2 days ago
