Is compacting too much, a bad thing?

[frankieplus]

I got a habit of compacting my outlook .pst file all the time. Maybe 3 or 4 times a day.

Can this be bad?



-Frankie

 

[DL]

Dont know about bad, but you are very unlikely to be gaining anything.
More importantly are you backing up your data?

 

[frankieplus]

Yeah that's the other thing I do all the time, Backup my data.

I think I have an outlook backup and compact obscession. I'm afraid something bad is going to happen.


-Frankie

 

[VanguardLH]

I got a habit of compacting my outlook .pst file all the time. Maybe 3 or 4 times a day.

Can this be bad?

How many megabytes are you recovering after each compaction?
How manys times per day do you defrag your hard disk(s)?
How many times a day do you wash your car?

You need something else to occupy your time. Newsgroups always need
another victim, er, helper.

 

[Pat Willener]

Outlook data files are only getting compacted if there is a serious
empty space percentage (I don't know exactly how much). So most likely
your compacting is not doing anything at all.