Yus. I took the plunge last night and moved the first 600 or so into subfolders, subsub folders and subsubsubfolders - but may have created more of a "high anarchy" than "hierarchy".
I'm too afraid of the in-built "archive" system (with my limited knowledge) to go down that route.
Snuggled up in bed last night after doing the first 600, it suddenly struck me - what about the sent items? Just had a look, 3,852 of them lurking there.
I had a look at the sleeping .pst file and found it to be hovering around the 880,913KB area. It's in its Vista defined storage area C/Users/<user name>/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook/Outlook.pst
I presume (but don't know) that, atking the 2GB working limit into account, I should consider breaking the file into lumps and storing different bits of it in different folders - but have them all appearing on the main "Inbox" page at the same time. Is this even possible? I've no real idea how to start to do that.
Storage isn't a problem, ultimately. I have 2 terrabytes of hard drive space - spreead across four HDD's in a RAID configuration....and everything is automatically backed up daily into the online world of "Carbonite" (
www.carbonite.com)