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Outlook archive

Kareem Culbertson 25

Hello. I have two questions regarding Outlook

If Online Archive is disabled; do emails in that mailbox transfer over to your main inbox?
Is there a way to move all emails from an archive mailbox into my main inbox? Drag and dropping causes my Outlook to freeze. Also trying to right-click and selecting the "Move" option causes my Outlook to freeze as well.

Thank you for any help

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Kareem

Hien-L 4,665 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-05-14T03:39:38.93+00:00

Hi Kareem Culbertson,

Agree with @Vasil Michev , if you think the reply is helpful to you, please remember to mark it as answer, this will make answer searching in the forum easier and be beneficial to other community members as well. Thanks for your understanding.

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Hien-L 4,665 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-05-14T03:39:38.93+00:00

Hi Kareem Culbertson,

Agree with @Vasil Michev , if you think the reply is helpful to you, please remember to mark it as answer, this will make answer searching in the forum easier and be beneficial to other community members as well. Thanks for your understanding.

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Vasil Michev 119.1K MVP Volunteer Moderator

No, if you disable the Online Archive, any existing items therein will be lost. There is no automatic process to move them back to the main mailbox, but there are some solutions that can help with the process, for example: https://eightwone.com/2021/08/14/unarchiving-mailbox-items/

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