Archiving not reducing size of Outlook.pst

[Guest]

I had one Outlook.pst file with all my mail in it, around 700 MB.

I used Outlook 2007 TR2's auto-archiver, to archive my mail.

An archive file was created that is around 600 MB.

Still my Outlook.pst file is 700 MB, shouldn't most of that been moved into
the Archive.pst?

Tools -> Mailbox Cleanup -> View Mailbox Size says my local data is 40 MB.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I had one Outlook.pst file with all my mail in it, around 700 MB.

I used Outlook 2007 TR2's auto-archiver, to archive my mail.

An archive file was created that is around 600 MB.

Still my Outlook.pst file is 700 MB, shouldn't most of that been
moved into the Archive.pst?

Tools -> Mailbox Cleanup -> View Mailbox Size says my local data is
40 MB.

Did you compact the PST?

 

[Guest]

Did you compact the PST?

Thanks for the response.

No neither the outlook or archive pst files were compressed before or after
I archived. But what does that have to do with this. From my understanding
600 MB from my Outlook.pst file should have been moved into the Archive.pst
file.

It looks like it was more of a copy than a move, and now my Outlook.pst file
is 600 MB overweight, and the Cleanup interface is telling me my Outlook data
file size is 40 MB, which is around what it should be after everything is
moved into the archive.

 

[Brian Tillman]

No neither the outlook or archive pst files were compressed before or
after I archived.

I didn't write "compressed." I wrong "compact.". Right-click the PST's
root, choose Properties, click Advanced, then Compact Now.

But what does that have to do with this. From my
understanding 600 MB from my Outlook.pst file should have been moved
into the Archive.pst file.

Because Outlook is intelligent, it knows that to be shrinking and expanding
a file constantly is wasteful of computer resources. The process the file
system uses to allocate and reclaim disk space is "expensive". So, instead
of releasing the space in the PST that was taken by the deleted messages,
Outlook simply marks that space available and then, when a ew message
arrives, file space in the PST is ready and waiting and Outlook doesn't have
to bother the file system for it. Space in the PST that is available for
reuse is called "white space". Unless you specifically instruct Outlook to
release white space to the file system, it keeps it in the PST until the
white space exceeds a certain fraction of the PST's allocation, at which
time Outlook will perform the compaction automatically.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I didn't write "compressed." I wrong "compact.".

And I didn't write "wrote", I wrote "wrong".