I was advised to post here.
Over the years, I've spent countless days trying to find a way to migrate content from my calendar on the outlook server to a pst file. I certainly don't want auto-archiving. At first, I thought it was as simple as going through and selecting swaths of items and dragging them to the folder for the pst file. Unfortunately, this doesn't work because items seem to show up randomly under the different filters (list,event,appointment) and under different recurrance filters. That is, annually recurring things might show up under the monthly recurring category (just one example). And sometimes, this obfuscation in category happened after the copy. There was no tabulated view that seemed to properly list all the things that I saw in monthly view.
Why not use month view as the source? Because dragging stuff happens piecemeal, and you only drag occurances, not series.
On top of that, when you *do* drag stuff from the server calendar to a pst file, you are asked 10 thousand million times to confirm that recipients of appointments are not tracked (or some message like that).
I thought I found a solution around all of the ills. I would export the calendar to a temporary pst file (obviously named with a profanity), then open that temporary file and copy the calendar into my archive pst file. Unfortunately, the subject line of every item in the calendar that was copied is prefixed with the string "Copy: ", diminishing the actual useful information that can be viewed in monthly view. Together with text representing the time of the calendar items themselves, this leaves very little room to display what the item is, especially since clock faces are no longer available in outlook. In fact, considering that the user has no way to avoid the "UPDATE: " prefix on items when plans are updated, there is *no* useful information in some calendar entries displayed in monthly view.
Is there any way to get rid of these obfuscating prefixes that are added?
Also, now that I copied all items to another calendar, is there a way to delete items from the server calendar without deleting those whose end date (both in terms of start/end date of nonrecurring items and in terms of recurrance end dates for recurring items) are before 2014?
P.S. I'm not sure if this is really a server question. It just so happens that I'm trying to migrate pre-2014 stuff from my calendar on the server, except for recurring items with recurrence end dates in/after 2014.