2.6.2 Moving subtrees

Once an entire project is finished, you may want to move it to a different location, either in the current file, or even in a different file, the archive file.

C-c C-x C-s

Archive the subtree starting at the cursor position to the location given by org-archive-location.

C-u C-c C-x C-s

Check if any direct children of the current headline could be moved to the archive. To do this, each subtree is checked for open TODO entries. If none are found, the command offers to move it to the archive location. If the cursor is not on a headline when this command is invoked, the level 1 trees will be checked.

The default archive location is a file in the same directory as the current file, with the name derived by appending _archive to the current file name. For information and examples on how to change this, see the documentation string of the variable org-archive-location. There is also an in-buffer option for setting this variable, for example

     #+ARCHIVE: %s_done::

You may have several such lines in the buffer, they will then be valid for the entries following the line (the first will also apply to any text before it).