{"id":2962,"date":"2021-01-21T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2021-01-21T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:31:19","slug":"how-to-delete-all-emails-or-calendar-entries-older-than-x-months-in-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=2962","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete All Emails or Calendar Entries Older Than X Months in Outlook?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, old email messages or calendar entries congest in Mail\/Calendar folders, making your Microsoft Outlook working heavily and slowly. In this article, I will show you some tricks about how to delete all messages or calendar entries older than specified period in Microsoft Outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delete All Messages Or Calendar Entries Older Than X Months With AutoArchive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>AutoArchive feature can help users to automatically move or permanently delete all messages or calendar entries older than specified days\/weeks\/months easily in Microsoft Outlook. And you can do as following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>. Select the folder that you will remove items older than specified days\/weeks\/months, right click and select the&nbsp;<strong>Properties<\/strong>&nbsp;from the drop down list.<br><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extendoffice.com\/images\/stories\/doc-outlook\/delete-old-emails\/doc-delete-old-emails-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"455\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>. In the coming Properties dialog box, go to the&nbsp;<strong>AutoArchive<\/strong>&nbsp;tab, and there are two situations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>A: If the option of Archive this folder using these settings is checked<\/em><\/strong><br>This means you archive this folder with custom settings. Find out the&nbsp;<strong>Clean out items older than<\/strong>, then specify the older than period, such as 6 months, next check the option of&nbsp;<strong>Permanently delete old items<\/strong>.<br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extendoffice.com\/images\/stories\/doc-outlook\/delete-old-emails\/doc-delete-old-emails-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"543\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>B: If the option of Archive items in this folder using the default settings is checked<\/em><\/strong><br>Click the&nbsp;<strong>Default Archive Settings<\/strong>&nbsp;button; then in the AutoArchive dialog box, specify the older than period behind the&nbsp;<strong>Clean out items older than<\/strong>, and check the option of&nbsp;<strong>Permanently delete old items<\/strong>.<br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extendoffice.com\/images\/stories\/doc-outlook\/delete-old-emails\/doc-delete-old-emails-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"559\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>. Click the<strong>&nbsp;OK<\/strong>&nbsp;button(s) to close dialog box(es).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After configuring, it will automatically delete messages or calendar entries older than the specified period in Outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quickly Search And Delete Duplicate Emails In Outlook<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;With Kutools for Outlook\u2019s<strong>&nbsp;Duplicate Emails&nbsp;<\/strong>feature, you can quickly find and delete them from multiple mail folders, or find and delete all duplicates from the selected ones with two clicks in Outlook.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.extendoffice.com\/download\/kutools-for-outlook.html\"><em>Click for 60-day free trial without limitation!<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extendoffice.com\/images\/stories\/doc-outlook\/ad-ttw\/duplicate-delete\/doc-delete-duplicate-emails-kto-13.0.png\" alt=\"ad delete duplicate emails kto\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;Delete All Messages Older Than X Months With Search Folder<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>To delete all messages older than the specified days\/weeks\/months in Outlook, you can also apply the New Search Folder feature to find out all old messages, and then delete them easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>. Select the mail folder where you will remove messages older than specified period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>. Click the&nbsp;<strong>New Search Folder<\/strong>&nbsp;button on the&nbsp;<strong>Folder<\/strong>&nbsp;tab. (<em>Note<\/em>: In Outlook 2007, you can click the&nbsp;<strong>File<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>New<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Search Folder<\/strong>.)<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extendoffice.com\/images\/stories\/doc-outlook\/delete-old-emails\/doc-delete-old-emails-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"164\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>. In the New Search Folder dialog box, click to select the<strong>&nbsp;Old mail&nbsp;<\/strong>in the&nbsp;<strong>Organizing Mail&nbsp;<\/strong>section, and then click the&nbsp;<strong>Choose<\/strong>&nbsp;button.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extendoffice.com\/images\/stories\/doc-outlook\/delete-old-emails\/doc-delete-old-emails-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"406\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>. In the coming Old Mail dialog box, specify the older than period in the two boxes, and then click the two&nbsp;<strong>OK&nbsp;<\/strong>buttons to close two dialog boxes.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extendoffice.com\/images\/stories\/doc-outlook\/delete-old-emails\/doc-delete-old-emails-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"120\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>. Find out and select the new search folder in the Navigation Pane, select all messages in this search folder with pressing the<strong>\u00a0Ctrl\u00a0<\/strong>+\u00a0<strong>A\u00a0<\/strong>keys at the same time, and then delete all of them with pressing the\u00a0<strong>Delete<\/strong>\u00a0key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ref: https:\/\/www.extendoffice.com\/documents\/outlook\/2177-outlook-delete-all-emails-older-than.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, old email messages or calendar entries congest in Mail\/Calendar folders, making your Microsoft Outlook working heavily and slowly. In this article, I will show you some tricks about how to delete all messages or calendar entries older than specified period in Microsoft Outlook. 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