Has anyone ever used the "compress" feature on your pst files both "outlook"
and "archive"? If so, what did it do, was it hard to retrieve them after the
process, etc.

thanks
Jason

Do you mean compact (to remove dead space) or NTFS compression?

"Jason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7ABFB946-01F2-4A10-BCEF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Has anyone ever used the "compress" feature on your pst files both
> "outlook"
> and "archive"? If so, what did it do, was it hard to retrieve them after
> the
> process, etc.

actually i meant to use the term "compact".
Outlook/File/DataManagement/Settings, etc. My archive file is beginning to
grow and i've always wondered what the "compact" feature would do the all the
sent and deleted emails and other items that are in the archive?

"Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

> Do you mean compact (to remove dead space) or NTFS compression?
>
> "Jason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:7ABFB946-01F2-4A10-BCEF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Has anyone ever used the "compress" feature on your pst files both
> > "outlook"
> > and "archive"? If so, what did it do, was it hard to retrieve them after
> > the
> > process, etc.
>
>
>

Jason <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> actually i meant to use the term "compact".
> Outlook/File/DataManagement/Settings, etc. My archive file is
> beginning to grow and i've always wondered what the "compact" feature
> would do the all the sent and deleted emails and other items that are
> in the archive?

"Compact" removes "whitespace", that empty space within the PST file that
remains after you delete an item. Since archive PSTs are generally add-only
(i.e., you keep adding messages to them and rarely go back and delete
messages from them), there will likely be very little, if any whitespace in
them, so compaction won't have much effect.
--
Brian Tillman