This helps Outlook to run efficiently and index swiftly between folders. In such context, moving messages from large folder to sub-folders might help organize, but it fails to prevent the indexing or reliability issues that Outlook faces.Īrchiving is a process where messages of a certain period or date have moved to a specific folder or storage place defined by the user. Search feature in Outlook gets affected when the user carries large folders in their inbox, also re-indexing large folders take much of the time. This includes primarily sorting, folders having a large amount of data are hard to sort. No matter how much free space left in the mailbox quota of users, Archiving is recommended for plenty of reasons.
