What OL2003 does after you clear many messages from Deleted Items

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Milhouse Van Houten

I find this annoying and am wondering if anyone else has noticed it. I use
OL2003 with a PST (no Exchange) on XPSP2. My PST is usually not much over
100MB.

When going into Deleted Items and clearing out, I don't know, on the order
of at least 500 or 1000 messages, I notice a sudden amount of disk activity.
I've used Sysinternal's Filemon to find that it's Outlook, presumably doing
some kind of subtle behind-the-scenes compaction. (Note that I have
AutoArchive disabled, so it's not that.) Problem is that this stealth
compaction goes on for 10, 15, 20 minutes or more, with the disk chattering
away the whole time. In order to avoid that drawn-out process, after I clear
my messages I simply do a manual compaction, which takes a minute or two, so
that Outlook doesn't need to do its own much less efficient "background
compaction."

Is this documented as known behavior? If so, is there perhaps an obscure
Registry hack to disable it?

Thanks
 
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After furious head scratching, Milhouse Van Houten asked:

| I find this annoying and am wondering if anyone else has noticed it.
| I use OL2003 with a PST (no Exchange) on XPSP2. My PST is usually not
| much over 100MB.
|
| When going into Deleted Items and clearing out, I don't know, on the
| order of at least 500 or 1000 messages, I notice a sudden amount of
| disk activity. I've used Sysinternal's Filemon to find that it's
| Outlook, presumably doing some kind of subtle behind-the-scenes
| compaction. (Note that I have AutoArchive disabled, so it's not
| that.) Problem is that this stealth compaction goes on for 10, 15, 20
| minutes or more, with the disk chattering away the whole time. In
| order to avoid that drawn-out process, after I clear my messages I
| simply do a manual compaction, which takes a minute or two, so that
| Outlook doesn't need to do its own much less efficient "background
| compaction."
|
| Is this documented as known behavior? If so, is there perhaps an
| obscure Registry hack to disable it?
|
| Thanks
 
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