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| Thread ID: 124729 | 2012-05-15 22:57:00 | Final questions on my lost emails problem.........nearly there now. | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 1275595 | 2012-05-17 23:20:00 | BT - just curious -- How much email do you actually have on your computer ? The reason for asking - I was at a business earlier this week, and the guys email would come through ( you can see the progress bar bottom right) then it would suddenly disappear - he wasn't using mailwasher, but it was nowhere to be found. He was using Outlook 2003 - and the problem was simply he had way to much mail saved. Once we had a "good clean out" and I mean dumped a few thousand mails in total, sent items, deleted items - any new mails now came through and were fine. :2cents: The number of people I try telling to have a sort out and get rid of all emails they don't need so they don't have thousands but they never do anything and then wonder things stuff up and slow down. I seem to remember that Outlook was particularly bad when getting above about 5,000. Or it could have been Outlook Express. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1275596 | 2012-05-18 03:33:00 | And if the earlier Oulook file got to 2GB..... | linw (53) | ||
| 1275597 | 2012-05-18 07:07:00 | BT - just curious -- How much email do you actually have on your computer ? The reason for asking - I was at a business earlier this week, and the guys email would come through ( you can see the progress bar bottom right) then it would suddenly disappear - he wasn't using mailwasher, but it was nowhere to be found. He was using Outlook 2003 - and the problem was simply he had way to much mail saved. Once we had a "good clean out" and I mean dumped a few thousand mails in total, sent items, deleted items - any new mails now came through and were fine. :2cents: Well! That is a possibility I hadn't considered. Ever since I moved to 2003 and got free of the 2 GB limit I have been less than diligent about deleting mail and it is now up to 3.2GB. Do you think this might be it, or was your client a bigger hoarder than I have been. I do delete as much as I can as I go along but it does accumulate. I'm dead sure that Mailwasher is innocent in all of this since it only opens the file and looks at the mail, though I do use it to delete spam etc, plus any other mail I don't want so that it never gets downloaded into Outlook. I'll make a backup of my PST over the weekend, do a major clean out of the current PST file, then compact it and see if that helps at all. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1275598 | 2012-05-18 07:36:00 | The client I was helping -- They had 1.4GB in mail on Outlook plus just over 1GB archived using outlook 2003. After cleaning out many old mails going back years, that they didn't really want, everything started working again as it should. This may be your problem, may not, but just something to keep in the back of your possible causes basket. :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1275599 | 2012-05-18 11:32:00 | The client I was helping -- They had 1.4GB in mail on Outlook plus just over 1GB archived using outlook 2003. After cleaning out many old mails going back years, that they didn't really want, everything started working again as it should. This may be your problem, may not, but just something to keep in the back of your possible causes basket. :) It seems I have more mail stored than they had, but then I was running close to the 2GB limit with Outlook 2000 and had no problems there. I don't bother archiving because I have many Gigs of spare disk space and keep multiple back-up copies. A little housekeeping never goes amiss so I'll have a clean out per my previous reply and see what happens. If it turnsd to custard it is just a matter of renaming two files and I'm back where I started. I'd really like to sort this email problem because it is causing me a lot of grief. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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