Hello,

I've recently archived some emails and they've gone into a .pst of
approximately 2700MB, however outlook says that the folder size is
2535MB. I can live with this as I assume there's some extra bits that
Outlook has to deal with, however my existing inbox is rather worse.
Outlook says that I have 303MB worth, but the .pst file is 2000MB?
I've tried compacting several times (this has come down from 3400MB)
but it's not going any further. Can I do anything about this?

Thanks

On 8/6/2010 12:30 AM, Matthew wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently archived some emails and they've gone into a .pst of
> approximately 2700MB, however outlook says that the folder size is
> 2535MB. I can live with this as I assume there's some extra bits that
> Outlook has to deal with, however my existing inbox is rather worse.
> Outlook says that I have 303MB worth, but the .pst file is 2000MB?
> I've tried compacting several times (this has come down from 3400MB)
> but it's not going any further. Can I do anything about this?
>
> Thanks

The Inbox is only part of the .pst file. It includes all the folders in
Outlook.

--
Peter Taylor

On Aug 6, 10:45*am, Peter Taylor <noemails...@please.com.invalid>
wrote:
> On 8/6/2010 12:30 AM, Matthew wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I've recently archived some emails and they've gone into a .pst of
> > approximately 2700MB, however outlook says that the folder size is
> > 2535MB. I can live with this as I assume there's some extra bits that
> > Outlook has to deal with, however my existing inbox is rather worse.
> > Outlook says that I have 303MB worth, but the .pst file is 2000MB?
> > I've tried compacting several times (this has come down from 3400MB)
> > but it's not going any further. Can I do anything about this?
>
> > Thanks
>
> The Inbox is only part of the .pst file. It includes all the folders in
> Outlook.
>
> --
> Peter Taylor

Sorry when I said inbox I included all the folders within that - the
303MB is the entire size. Interestingly I've tried running the
compression again this morning and it's knocked another 200MB off the
size.

On 8/6/2010 11:56 AM, Matthew wrote:
> On Aug 6, 10:45 am, Peter Taylor<noemails...@please.com.invalid>
> wrote:
>> On 8/6/2010 12:30 AM, Matthew wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>> I've recently archived some emails and they've gone into a .pst of
>>> approximately 2700MB, however outlook says that the folder size is
>>> 2535MB. I can live with this as I assume there's some extra bits that
>>> Outlook has to deal with, however my existing inbox is rather worse.
>>> Outlook says that I have 303MB worth, but the .pst file is 2000MB?
>>> I've tried compacting several times (this has come down from 3400MB)
>>> but it's not going any further. Can I do anything about this?
>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> The Inbox is only part of the .pst file. It includes all the folders in
>> Outlook.
>>
>> --
>> Peter Taylor
>
> Sorry when I said inbox I included all the folders within that - the
> 303MB is the entire size. Interestingly I've tried running the
> compression again this morning and it's knocked another 200MB off the
> size.

Try doing a defrag.

--
Peter Taylor

On Aug 6, 11:13*am, Peter Taylor <noemails...@please.com.invalid>
wrote:
> On 8/6/2010 11:56 AM, Matthew wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Aug 6, 10:45 am, Peter Taylor<noemails...@please.com.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >> On 8/6/2010 12:30 AM, Matthew wrote:
>
> >>> Hello,
>
> >>> I've recently archived some emails and they've gone into a .pst of
> >>> approximately 2700MB, however outlook says that the folder size is
> >>> 2535MB. I can live with this as I assume there's some extra bits that
> >>> Outlook has to deal with, however my existing inbox is rather worse.
> >>> Outlook says that I have 303MB worth, but the .pst file is 2000MB?
> >>> I've tried compacting several times (this has come down from 3400MB)
> >>> but it's not going any further. Can I do anything about this?
>
> >>> Thanks
>
> >> The Inbox is only part of the .pst file. It includes all the folders in
> >> Outlook.
>
> >> --
> >> Peter Taylor
>
> > Sorry when I said inbox I included all the folders within that - the
> > 303MB is the entire size. Interestingly I've tried running the
> > compression again this morning and it's knocked another 200MB off the
> > size.
>
> Try doing a defrag.
>
> --
> Peter Taylor

A defrag didn't help, but after googling some more I found that
there's a util in the Office12 folder called SCANPST.exe that checks
the .pst file for errors. I ran and did a repair then was able to
compress it some more. Repeated the process some more (probably around
5-6) and it's now down to 400MB!

Cheers for the advice anyway