tag:ask-leo.com,2009://3/tag:ask-leo.com,2007://3.2901- 2009-11-18T17:51:46Z Comments for Why isn't my Outlook PST getting smaller after deleting emails? Movable Type 4.25 tag:ask-leo.com,2007://3.2901-comment:39424 Comment from Surin on 2009-10-28 Surin Leo,

Thanks. Great advise. My outlook file bloated to 9GB - while I have removed some older mails to a new pst - my active pst showed 9GB while the personal folders were less than 3GB - as you may have gathered, I receive a heavy e-mail load...

How long does it take to compact the file?

Best,

Surin

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 2009-10-29T05:25:24Z tag:ask-leo.com,2007://3.2901-comment:27610 Comment from L. Morgado on 2007-02-02 L. Morgado http://unspecified Thank you so much for the 'compacting' option. After the longest time, in order to do a backup of the .pst file over a network, I've been trying to figure out what made the file smaller and now, thanks to you, I know. Thanks again.

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 2007-02-03T00:27:47Z tag:ask-leo.com,2007://3.2901-comment:27609 Comment from Terry Hollett on 2007-01-20 Terry Hollett I use 'SeaMonkey' formally 'Mozillasuite' and the integrated email client. I used a program to back it up one time and it was only a few megabytes in size, then at another time I ran a second backup and the file was over 50MB in size.

I always chose the option to delete the cache and couldn't understand what was going on. I went to my email folder and found some very large files there like the one called 'inbox', there was no extension.

I went online to see if I could safely delete this file, thats when I discovered what 'compacting' meant.

With Seamonkey and Thunderbird, just rightclick on each folder you want to compact and chose the option from the menu.

http://www.geocities.com/terryhollett2003/compact.htm

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