If you setup Microsoft Outlook on your PC or Mac recently, you may have noticed that your old emails do not come up on a search or when you scroll all the way down in your Inbox.
The reason is that by default Microsoft Outlook only syncs emails from the last 2 years to save disk space.
On today’s tip you will learn how to sync older emails or all your emails if disk space is not a problem and if you would like to find any email on a search, no matter how old they are.
First, you must navigate to the File menu and click on Account Settings > Account Settings:
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Once you are on the Account Settings screen, click on the Change button:
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Now you can use the slide bar to set the age of the emails that will be synced by Outlook.
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Click Next, Done and Close buttons and wait for Outlook to sync your mailbox.
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