Should archiving mail reduce the size of mailbox.pst?

[Guest]

My mailbox.pst file was approaching 1GB (700MB actually) so I archived a lot
of the older stuff. The archive.pst file is ~400MB in size, but my
mailbox.pst file is still 700MB. Shouldn't it be smaller after moving all
these emails out? I'm using Outlook 2000 on an older W2K laptop. Switching
between folders in Outlook is pretty slow so I figured I'd archive the stuff
I don't need, but it doesn't seem to be decreasing the size of my mailbox.pst
file.

 

[Guest]

I haven't completely emptied my Deleted Items folder (I use the Deleted Items
folder a lot to reference things I've received but don't want to file for
long term storage), but I did archive about 3/4's of the items. It doesn't
change the size of the actual mailbox.pst file (as viewed in Windows
Explorer). If I right-click on Outlook today and select properties, the
total size of my inbox from Outlooks perspective is about ~250MB. However,
when looking at the file in Windows Explorer, it says the file is ~700MB.

 

[Guest]

Someone mentioned that the size of your mailbox is also impacted by how many
tasks and files you have in your taskings and your calendar can impact the
size too. Can anyone shed more light on this? Doesn't your calendar and
taskings archive like e-mail? If not why not?

Thanks,
Debbie

 

[Guest]

If you have large items in the Deleted Items folder and the size of the items
you archived is relatively small, then there will not be enough "white space"
left in your .PST to make much of a difference when compacting.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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[Guest]

Anything completely contained within a task or calendar item (an attachment
or the full text of a file, for example) will archive with the item.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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