I need help!!!

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Paul

OK,
I have a Palm pilot that I bought for use with a Contact Manager program I
have called Maximizer. As contact manager it works great, but the software
for integrating the Palm with it "sucks"
Outlook 2003 works great and it's tempting to use Outlook as a contact
manager, but quite frankly Outlook it a "pig" on memory and resources and
this in the only complaint I have. If not for this one problem everything
would be great for me.
After using Maximizer for 5 years for all notes letters, 1900 contacts, etc,
my backup file was approx 12 - 13meg.
After 2.5 month with 150 contacts logging all notes, appointments, etc. my
backup file is a wopping 103meg. ouch!!!
Where am I heading here?
Does anyone out there use Outlook as their main Contact manager. Do you save
you files over a long period of time? I am going to hit the memory "wall" in
a year with a backup file of a Kazillion gig???

Advice, it welcomed here!

Paul
 
Paul said:
After using Maximizer for 5 years for all notes letters, 1900
contacts, etc, my backup file was approx 12 - 13meg.
After 2.5 month with 150 contacts logging all notes, appointments,
etc. my backup file is a wopping 103meg. ouch!!!
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103 MB for an Outlook PST is not that large. PSTs for Outlook 2003 can get
to 20 GB or larger. Disk space is cheap. You can get a 120GB disk for US
$60 when on sale.
Does anyone out there use Outlook as their main Contact manager.
Click to expand...

You bet.
Do you save you files over a long period of time?
Click to expand...

Absolutely. Right now,. I have 600 MB worth of backups (eight of them)
going back a couple of months. (I save backups each week for two months.)
I am going to hit the
memory "wall" in a year with a backup file of a Kazillion gig???
Click to expand...

Memory (RAM in your PC) has nothing to do with it. Disk space does. And at
US $2-3 per gigabyte, no one should worry about that, either.
 
Thanks so much for the input.
After viewing the folders it seems the mail is what takes up the lions share
of the memory! Much of this for me can be deleted.
My Contacts are taking up a meager 650kb

Roady said:
Sounds like you were storing less before. You can see what Outlook is
storing by viewing folder and item sizes. A clean-up guide can be found
here;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/cleanmailbox.htm
Also note that a 100MB isn't a large file these days.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1
Paul said:
OK,
I have a Palm pilot that I bought for use with a Contact Manager program I
have called Maximizer. As contact manager it works great, but the software
for integrating the Palm with it "sucks"
Outlook 2003 works great and it's tempting to use Outlook as a contact
manager, but quite frankly Outlook it a "pig" on memory and resources and
this in the only complaint I have. If not for this one problem everything
would be great for me.
After using Maximizer for 5 years for all notes letters, 1900 contacts,
etc,
my backup file was approx 12 - 13meg.
After 2.5 month with 150 contacts logging all notes, appointments, etc. my
backup file is a wopping 103meg. ouch!!!
Where am I heading here?
Does anyone out there use Outlook as their main Contact manager. Do you
save
you files over a long period of time? I am going to hit the memory "wall"
in
a year with a backup file of a Kazillion gig???

Advice, it welcomed here!

Paul
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Click to expand...
 
Thanks

Brian Tillman said:
103 MB for an Outlook PST is not that large. PSTs for Outlook 2003 can get
to 20 GB or larger. Disk space is cheap. You can get a 120GB disk for US
$60 when on sale.


You bet.


Absolutely. Right now,. I have 600 MB worth of backups (eight of them)
going back a couple of months. (I save backups each week for two months.)


Memory (RAM in your PC) has nothing to do with it. Disk space does. And at
US $2-3 per gigabyte, no one should worry about that, either.
Click to expand...
 
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