I have been using Outlook 2003 for years. The past few months it has become super picky about how I close Outlook. If not closed PERFECTLY, it starts the next time with a lengthy checking of personal folders. Lately it is almost unusable in that it will check personal folders several times per day.
It also takes a LONG time for send/receive to load the new messages.
The whole program has become VERY slow.
I have 7,628 messages in my inbox and who knows how many in my sent file.
Just today, I upgraded to Outlook 2007 hoping that this will help.
In the bottom left hand corner, it says "35,805 items".

Would love to know how I can restore my Outlook's functionality and especially get it to stop checking personal folders all the time.

Regards,
Dan

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And what size is your data file (Personal folders)?
If you select Personal Folders, rt click, Properties, in Advanced Tab, what
does it say for Format?
97 - 2002 maybe?
And what third party add-ins are you using, eg Anti Virus, sync tools, fax
software etc?
Why have you not used the Archive options?

"Dan Nease" <dnease[at]cox[dot]net> wrote in message
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>I have been using Outlook 2003 for years. The past few months it has become
>super picky about how I close Outlook. If not closed PERFECTLY, it starts
>the next time with a lengthy checking of personal folders. Lately it is
>almost unusable in that it will check personal folders several times per
>day.
> It also takes a LONG time for send/receive to load the new messages.
> The whole program has become VERY slow.
> I have 7,628 messages in my inbox and who knows how many in my sent file.
> Just today, I upgraded to Outlook 2007 hoping that this will help.
> In the bottom left hand corner, it says "35,805 items".
>
> Would love to know how I can restore my Outlook's functionality and
> especially get it to stop checking personal folders all the time.
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
> Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com

My personal folder data file is 7446406 KB. Format is Personal Folders File.
I use efax and Avira for anti-virus.
I do use archive. Outlook prompts me periodically to archive and I always say yes. Maybe I should change the rules so that it archives more emails?
Thanks,
Dan


DL wrote on Sun, 12 April 2009 06:40
> And what size is your data file (Personal folders)?
> If you select Personal Folders, rt click, Properties, in Advanced Tab, what
> does it say for Format?
> 97 - 2002 maybe?
> And what third party add-ins are you using, eg Anti Virus, sync tools, fax
> software etc?
> Why have you not used the Archive options?
>
> "Dan Nease" <dnease[at]cox[dot]net> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have been using Outlook 2003 for years. The past few months it has become
> >super picky about how I close Outlook. If not closed PERFECTLY, it starts
> >the next time with a lengthy checking of personal folders. Lately it is
> >almost unusable in that it will check personal folders several times per
> >day.
> > It also takes a LONG time for send/receive to load the new messages.
> > The whole program has become VERY slow.
> > I have 7,628 messages in my inbox and who knows how many in my sent file.
> > Just today, I upgraded to Outlook 2007 hoping that this will help.
> > In the bottom left hand corner, it says "35,805 items".
> >
> > Would love to know how I can restore my Outlook's functionality and
> > especially get it to stop checking personal folders all the time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan
> >
> > Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com


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My personal folder data file is 7446406 KB. Format is Personal Folders File.
I use efax and Avira for anti-virus.
I do use archive. Outlook prompts me periodically to archive and I always say yes. Maybe I should change the rules so that it archives more emails?
Thanks,
Dan



DL wrote on Sun, 12 April 2009 06:40
> And what size is your data file (Personal folders)?
> If you select Personal Folders, rt click, Properties, in Advanced Tab, what
> does it say for Format?
> 97 - 2002 maybe?
> And what third party add-ins are you using, eg Anti Virus, sync tools, fax
> software etc?
> Why have you not used the Archive options?
>
> "Dan Nease" <dnease[at]cox[dot]net> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have been using Outlook 2003 for years. The past few months it has become
> >super picky about how I close Outlook. If not closed PERFECTLY, it starts
> >the next time with a lengthy checking of personal folders. Lately it is
> >almost unusable in that it will check personal folders several times per
> >day.
> > It also takes a LONG time for send/receive to load the new messages.
> > The whole program has become VERY slow.
> > I have 7,628 messages in my inbox and who knows how many in my sent file.
> > Just today, I upgraded to Outlook 2007 hoping that this will help.
> > In the bottom left hand corner, it says "35,805 items".
> >
> > Would love to know how I can restore my Outlook's functionality and
> > especially get it to stop checking personal folders all the time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan
> >
> > Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com


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My personal folder data file is 7446406 KB. Format is Personal Folders File.
I use efax and Avira for anti-virus.
I do use archive. Outlook prompts me periodically to archive and I always say yes. Maybe I should change the rules so that it archives more emails?
Thanks,
Dan.
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Thats a fairly large folder set 7.4gb and 7.6k msgs in your Inbox seems
rather a lot
I believe the default Auto Archive setting is for older than 6 months, maybe
you need to adjust, and baring mind the size of your current folder set you
might want to consider creating a new archive by year

"Dan Nease" <dnease[at]cox[dot]net> wrote in message
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> My personal folder data file is 7446406 KB. Format is Personal Folders
> File.
> I use efax and Avira for anti-virus.
> I do use archive. Outlook prompts me periodically to archive and I always
> say yes. Maybe I should change the rules so that it archives more emails?
> Thanks,
> Dan. Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com