Fort Hays State University
Victor E. Tiger

Navigation Bar


Quick Links

Information for
New Students

Information for New Faculty and Staff

Services Directory

Learn to Use
Scatcat E-Mail

Blackboard FAQ

Basic Computer Recommendations

Wireless Access

Software Center

Virus Information

HelpDesk Headlines

About the CTC HelpDesk

Hours / Contact Us


 Home > CTC > CTC HelpDesk > E-Mail and Web Pages > Faculty / Staff E-Mail

Computing and Telecommunication Center HelpDesk

Lotus Notes Archiving Instructions

As a regular practice, it is recommended that you remove unnecessary messages from your Lotus Notes account. Instructions are available in the Clearing Space in Lotus Notes document. If you still find it necessary to keep old messages and don't have sufficient space in your account, another option is to archive them.

"Archiving" removes messages from the Lotus Notes (LN) mail server and creates an archive database on your local machine. This clears space in your account, but preserves the original format of the messages and allows you to easily access them from inside your LN Client. Because archived messages are stored on your local machine, they will not be available from another location. A good suggestion is to archive older and larger items that you won't need to access frequently.

To set up archiving in Lotus Notes:

  1. Open the Lotus Notes Client and go to your Inbox.

  2. Click on Actions, and choose Archive, and then Settings.

  3. In the resulting box, click on the Settings tab and check the Enable archiving checkbox so that it is active.

  4. Click OK. At this point, archiving should be set up.

Manually archiving messages:

  1. From your Inbox, click to the left of the messages you wish to archive in order to place a checkmark beside them.

  2. Once you have selected all the documents you wish to archive, click on Actions, and choose Archive, and then Archive Selected Documents.

  3. On the box that pops up, click "OK"

  4. The selected messages will now be archived to a file on your local computer.

Accessing archived messages:

  1. To access archived messages, go to your Inbox, and in the left pane expand (double-click or single-click the '+' sign) Tools, then expand Archive, and finally single-click on the remaining icon, usually named Default for Last Modified.

  2. At this point you will now be able to read and modify the archived messages stored on your local machine.

For a dditional assistance with archiving, contact the CTC HelpDesk or Mark Griffin (mgriffin@fhsu.edu).


Copyright © 2002-2009 Fort Hays State University - 600 Park Street, Hays, Kansas 67601-4099 - 785-628-FHSU (3478)
Site Map - Contact Webmaster with any questions or comments concerning this Web site.