YOu must have removed over 10% of your items for compacting to work.
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After furious head scratching, Stephen A. Davis asked:
| This is the exact problem I am having. I delete a ton of mail out of
| my PST and compact it, but the file size remains aproximatley the
| same. What is the deal?
|
| "Confused" wrote:
|
|| Thank you, Pat.
||
|| I compacted and went from 1.9 to 1.7 MB.
||
|| Do I have to delete more, or can a pst file be split? Or do I just
|| buy a 2G flash drive?
||
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|| "Pat Willener" wrote:
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||| Deleting mail will not shrink the file size until you compact. You
||| will not lose anything by doing so, but taking a backup before as a
||| precaution is always a good idea.
|||
||| To compact, right-click on the file/folder in Outlook, select
||| Properties, tab General, Advanced, Compact Now.
|||
||| Confused wrote:
|||| Do I lose anything when I compact, or is it just filling empty
|||| space?
||||
|||| Shouldn't deleting 700 emails have shrunk the file size?
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|||| "Pat Willener" wrote:
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||||| Compact the file after deleting contents.
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||||| Confused wrote:
|||||| My pst file on my old computer is about 1.9 mb, according to Win
|||||| explorer, so I deleted about 700 emails, but the size remains
|||||| the same.
|||||| My goal is to get it to one gig for my flash drive.
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|||||| How can I do this?
