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A) You don't. The only ways to undo the effects of archiving are to go to the archive file and enter/import newer transactions or to export the transactions from the archive file and import them into your current file. Both involve going through the .QIF export/import process. Neither is trouble-free. See the MSKB for Microsoft's approach.
Archiving will shrink your file size somewhat. There have been some reports that archiving helps performance problems. That's about all it does. On the down side, in addition to not providing any way to put the archived data back in the ongoing data file, archiving will not remove old investment account activity and related transfer transactions. In some versions, archiving seems to have many problems adjusting the account beginning balance for removed transactions.
For these reasons, many of us do not recommend archiving and do not do it ourselves. If you start recording all kinds of interesting memo data (like serial numbers for your toys, warranty lengths, the genus and species of plants you bought for your garden and so on) you, too, will not want to archive.
If you archived recently enough, you can use the archive file you created in place of the file that Archive removed transactions from. It has all of the transactions in your entire Money file as of the date you archived, not just ones before the archive date. This is another result of the rather odd design for archiving.
References:
MSKB: 133485 How to un-archive
Please see this disclaimer if you are using Money 2005 or this comment if you are using Money 2006.
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