We are allowed about 250K kbs (or whatever it is) for our mailboxes. When it gets to a certain point you get a warning...if you go past it you can't send or receive until you clean up. So along the way I have built 3-4 years of personal archive folders that reside on my hard drive rather than the server. I get my warning and I make a new archive folder (late 2011 in or early 2012 out, etc). I need these e-mails, you never know when you will need what but I save every one that is business related.
So I got my new laptop and went looking for a tutorial to move them from one to the other. I got some insctructions but they were a little convoluted and some actually conflicted with others...so sort of following the instructions I went into import export and "viola!" there was an Archive file.
Which I saved and promptly imported into my new Outlook, very proud of myself when it seemed to be working.
Along I go, doing various things when I happen to look at the folder structure on my new laptop...and see that I have imported my last 4 years of e-mails directly into my main folder and therefore onto the main server in Dallas. The one that limits me to 250K.
The one which now holds 3.4 million of my e-mails rather than 250K. :0
I had to delete them manually and then wait for exchange to synch after each folder. It took several hours but at least when Dallas opened on Monday I was back to normal.
Why didn't the server stop me? I put 3.4 million on there and could still get mail for about an hour or so.
And here I am with those folders still needing to transfer and me afraid to do it. I don't want to put them back on the server, IT will kill me!
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