You now need to compact your .pst file. Right click on the root of the
mailbox (usually outlook today) and select properties, then advanced. Use
the "compact now" option - usually 3 times is the charm.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, Steve R asked:
| SUCCESS!!!!!!!! :>)
| DL and Milly:
| Thank you to both of you for your prompt responses.
| DL's observation that my "...HD has insufficient free space for the
| correction operation of the o/s..." was RIGHT ON THE MONEY.
| After transferring sufficient data from my HD to "storage" - I opened
| up 34 GB of 142 Total (this took close to 4 hours!).
| Then I ran scanpst.exe, which took another hour.
| It repaired the Outlook.pst.
| I thank "backed up" the 3.9 GB Outlook.pst.
| Finally, I opened Outlook and archived what I though was at 2/3's of
| my 3.9 GB.
| ******QUESTION:
| ******Why do 3.0 GB still "show" in my Outlook.pst - AFTER the
| archiving? Those emails and attachments are no longer in my OUTLOOK
| INBOX/SEND BOX. ******Is there a "compaction" program that must be
| run?
| Thank you again. I look forward to you answers on the aftermath
| questions.
|
|| Your HD has insufficient free space for the correct operation of the
|| o/s, you need a minimum of 15% free space for win to function
|| without problems Thats not to say that scanpst would run correctly
|| if you had sufficient free space
||
|| You can reduce the size of the pst by the use of the Archive options
|| - you dont lose access to what is archived
||
||
|| "Steve R" <steve at subdivision.net.(donotspam)> wrote in message
|| ||| In reverse response:
||| 1. Size of .pst file = 3,914,999
||| 2. Outlook and all instances of it were fully "closed."
||| 3. No other PC problems whatsoever; problem arose clearly out of
||| the blue. PC and OUTLOOK (& other MS Office 2007 programs have been
||| operating flawlessly (unlike under former PC with XP) ).
|||
||| Initially, when starting up OL2007, small box announced that the
||| data file 'Personal Folders" was not closed properly. About 40
||| seconds thereafter, the
||| 'Inbox Repair' window popped up, after OL completely closed.
|||
||| Harddrive is 142 GB with only 10 GB free.
||| a. Would freeing up space give scanpst.exe more "room" to work?
||| b. Is .pst too large to be handled by scanpst?
||| If so, can I break it up with something like "hjsplit.exe"?
||| Thank you in advance for your assistance.
|||
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||| Steve R
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| How big is the .pst file?
||||
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|||| ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
|||| How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||||
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Steve R asked:
||||
||||| OL 2007 on Vista:
||||| I received message to use "Inbox Repair Tool."
||||| Ran scanpst.exe, which proceed though its 8 Phases, followed by
||||| "Repair" sequence.
||||| After a rather long time, the Repair window hazed over in white
||||| and words in parentheses noted "Not Responding".
||||| I've run the scanpst.exe 3 times with the same results.
||||| Any suggestions?
