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October 1st 06, 05:46 AM
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.pst file hardly diminished after major archive
After archiving nearly 40MB of Outlook (97) data, my main .pst file
shows up as only 4MB smaller than the old size. Help says I can only compact "offline" folders (which I assume these aren't), so how do I reclaim the space? 
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October 1st 06, 11:57 AM
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.pst file hardly diminished after major archive
Did you compact your PST file? Look in Properties Advanced...
-- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote in message oups.com... After archiving nearly 40MB of Outlook (97) data, my main .pst file shows up as only 4MB smaller than the old size. Help says I can only compact "offline" folders (which I assume these aren't), so how do I reclaim the space?
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October 3rd 06, 04:17 AM
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.pst file hardly diminished after major archive
OK, thanks for that, but Properties Advanced...leads to an option to
Compress the file rather than Compact it. Yes it will make the file smaller but my understanding is that Compacting should be removing the large amount of empty space that should have been freed up by the archiving, whereas Compressing just uses algorithms to better store what's there already. Maybe they're doing the same thing, maybe Compressing is removing new empty space (the pst is now a bit under 20MB smaller than it was), but there is a fundamental difference between the two processes and I'm not sure if Compressing has just squished existing data rather than removed empty data. When you delete a stack of emails you obviously compact the folder, not compress it to have it's new size revealed, and I'm surprised you don't do the same with the .pst file after an archive. Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Did you compact your PST file? Look in Properties Advanced... -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote in message oups.com... After archiving nearly 40MB of Outlook (97) data, my main .pst file shows up as only 4MB smaller than the old size. Help says I can only compact "offline" folders (which I assume these aren't), so how do I reclaim the space?
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October 3rd 06, 10:25 AM
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.pst file hardly diminished after major archive
Wrong. It leads to the option is to Compact the file. It does what you need.
-- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote in message oups.com... OK, thanks for that, but Properties Advanced...leads to an option to Compress the file rather than Compact it. Yes it will make the file smaller but my understanding is that Compacting should be removing the large amount of empty space that should have been freed up by the archiving, whereas Compressing just uses algorithms to better store what's there already. Maybe they're doing the same thing, maybe Compressing is removing new empty space (the pst is now a bit under 20MB smaller than it was), but there is a fundamental difference between the two processes and I'm not sure if Compressing has just squished existing data rather than removed empty data. When you delete a stack of emails you obviously compact the folder, not compress it to have it's new size revealed, and I'm surprised you don't do the same with the .pst file after an archive. Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Did you compact your PST file? Look in Properties Advanced... -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote in message oups.com... After archiving nearly 40MB of Outlook (97) data, my main .pst file shows up as only 4MB smaller than the old size. Help says I can only compact "offline" folders (which I assume these aren't), so how do I reclaim the space?
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