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Microsoft Outlook Archiving

« on: 12/10/2011, 03:02 PM »

Archiving my emails dues to massive pst files.
Out of curiosity I noted the file sizes before I archived.
I set the date to archive anything older than July first 2011 to a new pst file.
To my surprise the original pst file remained exactly the same size down the the kilabyte, and I now have an additional pst file about the size I was expecting at 1.6 gig.
I've scrolled through my two most popular folders, and found that emails from 1/1/11 - 1/7/11 are indeed gone, but from somewhere there are emails from 2009 in there?
I tried compressing the files and it did nothing. I just manually deleted all the 2009 emails from the 2 folders I mentioned, but I don't want to do that for every folder(I might have 100).
I'm clearly missing something, I don't understand how I have gotten rid of half the emails, but the file is the same size?


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Re: Microsoft Outlook Archiving

« Reply #1 on: 12/10/2011, 03:28 PM »

You are missing that the archive function is highly unreliable.
Move the PST file as well to free up resources and speed your computer


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Re: Microsoft Outlook Archiving

« Reply #2 on: 15/10/2011, 09:50 AM »

To answer my own query if anyone cares.
I used the compact button, and it did nothing, basically acknowleged being clicked, then I emptied my deleted emails, and hit the compact button. Compacting began, and approximately 16 hours later I figured it wasn't going to work, so I found and used the pst repair tool in windows, and it had some errors which were fixed. Then I used the compact button again, I checked it 20 hours later and teh compact had finished, and my pst file is now only 1.6 gig. Not sure if it took 5 minutes or 19 hours and 59 minutes, but somewhere in there it finsihed.
On a slightly side note, I had read in a lot of places that PST files get glitchy after 2 gig, but the maximum size is 20 gig. Also lots of folders and sub folders used to file emails will slow down the responsiveness of Outlook.