Are attachments stored in my Outlook PST? How can I remove them, if they are?

Leo,

Your reader asked "Is there a way to delete the attachments while still keeping the body of the email? Your answer is applicable to new emails, but what about the tens of thousands of emails that are already in the PST? The answer is an Outlook attachment management utility. There are programs that can extract (remove) all the attached files from an existing PST file and save them separately; there are programs that can automatically remove and save the attachment as new emails come in. In my opinion, the two best sources of such utilities are www.mapilab.com and www.slipstick.com.

Best Regards,
Geoff Walker

I have lots of e-mails with zip files in Outlook 2003 - I've tried right clicking and choosing remove, but remove is greyed out. Is there any reason for this i.e. a security setting, as my PST is getting to the unreasonable size stage and I'd like to do something about it, preferably with 3rd party programs. Thanks, Emma

I agree with the idea of deleting attachments to keep the PST small. However, what I would really like is that, when the attachment is deleted, a comment is still retained in the e-mail of the file name that had been attached originally. Just like it does when you reply to an e-mail in fact. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Joan

Hi ,
I am using my outlook from last 4 years I have so many pst I want to get only my all email from pst . can u tell me about it if any tool is available in online.

Leo,
I know the major source of my attachments is a particular sender. I even have a sub folder for that sender. How do I split my pst to extract mails from the particular sender?

Festus

Check out this app from Nirsoft.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_attachment.html

Run this app, you can choose the attachments to delete. Also, after deleting you should 'compact' your data PST file, then you should see a smaller file size.

I periodically delete ALL of the attachments that are in my 'sent' folder. The file is already on my hard drive-there's no need to keep it with my Outlook.

Hears an easy way to remove overparticular emails without using third party tools. create search by right clinking on the search folder in your pst in outlook. after the search is complete(you can do other things will it is searching like go to your inbox and send emails) move them to anothere pst or the.