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| Thread ID: 55997 | 2005-03-24 11:39:00 | Outlook eating my disk | Mercury (1316) | Press F1 |
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| 337586 | 2005-03-24 11:39:00 | Major disk clean up coming up. Have started with Outlook deleting surplus emails. To give a sense of achievement in this process I found the Outlook files in Local Settings/App data/Microsoft/Outloook and was somewhat stunned to find two files: - archive.pst coming in at a massive 99,632Kb - and an even more massive outlook.pst at a mind-boggling 101,505KB. What's worse is that deleting emails makes no difference to these sizes. Am I missing something here or is Microsoft stepping in to look after my interests by saving every last deleted bit of spam for me in case I do want a fake degree or bad medicine? OS is XP, Outlook 2000 |
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| 337587 | 2005-03-24 11:55:00 | You would need to compact the files from within Outlook to recover the space. Those sizes are not at all unusual. You get problems when they get to 2 GB. ask-leo.com |
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| 337588 | 2005-03-24 12:20:00 | Thank you. File size is now 33,801KB - 33% of it's former size. I used Outlook Express for years and things that were deleted actually were deleted. Didn't realise that Outlook worked differently. Now for a bit more re-organisation and deletion to see how small it can go... |
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