From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Or an indicator message when you start Outlook, when you're at 80% full of
the 2G or so. Might take a full hour of work to do that...


Antti Kurenniemi
(I've been thinking about learning how to program Outlook
extensions/plugins/gadgets, and this might just be it...)

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4345a3ae$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> It would be really easy to solve that by having outlook actually SHOW the
> user how big the file is next to the folder in folders view. People don't
> realize how much crap they are storing in outlook, heck I've checked and
> found I had 200mb of saved emails, it shocked me as I didn't think I could
> even read 200mb worth of text. But you know how MS feels about giving the
> user any information that might cause a newbie to ask "what's this?"..
>
> Geo. (questions are baaaaaaddd)
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:43449a8c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I don't think it's necessarily an improvement - I would have lowered the
>> limit to 1g or even less. People are storing their whole damn life in
>> that
>> one single file now, and it really bothers me as it is dang difficult to
> fix
>> & it is never backed up properly.
>>
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>> (in a way, Outlook is too good a tool for many people)
>
>

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