I have about 5 gigs of saved email messages on my hard drive.
How can I be sure that they are occupying the minimum amount of space?
Is there some way to compress them to remove space between the messages I
have deleted?

Assuming they are contained in pst files, accessible within OL; Compact them
(properties of the pst)

"Portocar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0CD1D5ED-D101-4169-9473-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have about 5 gigs of saved email messages on my hard drive.
> How can I be sure that they are occupying the minimum amount of space?
> Is there some way to compress them to remove space between the messages I
> have deleted?

Thank you.
I do know how to get to the .pst file by drilling down through the
"Documents and Settings".
Is there a more direct way to access the .pst files?
Nestor


"DL" wrote:

> Assuming they are contained in pst files, accessible within OL; Compact them
> (properties of the pst)
>
> "Portocar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:0CD1D5ED-D101-4169-9473-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have about 5 gigs of saved email messages on my hard drive.
> > How can I be sure that they are occupying the minimum amount of space?
> > Is there some way to compress them to remove space between the messages I
> > have deleted?
>
>
>

I meant, within OL for properties of the pst.
If the particular pst is not visible in OL, then you have to open it, within
OL by
File>Open>Data File
Select properties, Advanced>Compact

PS I assume this is a unicode (OL2003 or higher pst) if you only have a
single saved pst of 5gb

"Portocar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2DB4C6F6-498F-463A-A06C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thank you.
> I do know how to get to the .pst file by drilling down through the
> "Documents and Settings".
> Is there a more direct way to access the .pst files?
> Nestor
>
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
> > Assuming they are contained in pst files, accessible within OL; Compact
them
> > (properties of the pst)
> >
> > "Portocar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:0CD1D5ED-D101-4169-9473-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I have about 5 gigs of saved email messages on my hard drive.
> > > How can I be sure that they are occupying the minimum amount of space?
> > > Is there some way to compress them to remove space between the
messages I
> > > have deleted?
> >
> >
> >

Yes - it is OL 2003.
Thank you - I understand. This is a shorter way to access the .pst file.
Nestor

"DL" wrote:

> I meant, within OL for properties of the pst.
> If the particular pst is not visible in OL, then you have to open it, within
> OL by
> File>Open>Data File
> Select properties, Advanced>Compact
>
> PS I assume this is a unicode (OL2003 or higher pst) if you only have a
> single saved pst of 5gb
>
> "Portocar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2DB4C6F6-498F-463A-A06C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Thank you.
> > I do know how to get to the .pst file by drilling down through the
> > "Documents and Settings".
> > Is there a more direct way to access the .pst files?
> > Nestor
> >
> >
> > "DL" wrote:
> >
> > > Assuming they are contained in pst files, accessible within OL; Compact
> them
> > > (properties of the pst)
> > >
> > > "Portocar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:0CD1D5ED-D101-4169-9473-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > I have about 5 gigs of saved email messages on my hard drive.
> > > > How can I be sure that they are occupying the minimum amount of space?
> > > > Is there some way to compress them to remove space between the
> messages I
> > > > have deleted?
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>

On Sunday, May 20, 2007 6:10:00 PM UTC+5:30, Portocar wrote:
> I have about 5 gigs of saved email messages on my hard drive.
> How can I be sure that they are occupying the minimum amount of space?
> Is there some way to compress them to remove space between the messages I
> have deleted?

Using Kernel for compact and compress PST package, user can now easily savetheir outlook mailbox information in a single or several files of small sizes. These compressed folders can be again decompressed by the PST file shrinking tool, when required by the user. The data structure and order of outlook PST files remain intact in the new compressed file created by this program. This tool can be downloaded from http://www.compactpst.com/