Auto Archiving Issues in Outlook 2010

[Exfso]

I have gone through what I think from numerous tutorials is the correct method of auto archiving. I have found the archive.pst folder in its appropriate position and it is only showing about 150m of data. My Outlook.pst is showing 4.5gb of data.
I notice that all the folders in my in box still contain all the entries from in some cases years back. I was under the impression that when archiving is done these folders should be cleaned up and the older stuff goes to the archive.pst.
When I set up the auto archiving I pretty well left everything at default.
If I open the archive folder from within Outlook and click on the Inbox properties it shows that there is nothing in any of the subfolders.

Obviously something is amiss, I just cannot locate what it is. Any help very much appreciated

 

[Ranger4]

Have you set the right folder options for Auto Archiving. Open Outlook select File then Options, then Advanced. There you should find Auto Archive Settings, click on that & follow through on where you want the archived folder to be & what it's to be called. You can also set it too delete items older than a set period of time if you wish.

This is taken from Outlook 2013, but I think Outlook 2010 is much the same.