Hello August.

08 Apr 21 22:48, you wrote to All:

 AA> Hello All!

 AA> I use MS Outlook for email at my shop.  Over a year has
 AA> transpired since the covid stuff took over my life and I hadn't
 AA> been feeling like keeping up with the pace of incoming emails
 AA> that could normally be deleted.  Sure enough, I was reaching the
 AA> 2GB limit that MS Outlook has with its email .PST files.

 AA> My .PST file was at about 1.96GB

 AA> From there, it wouldn't be long before incoming email and the
 AA> ability to even delete emails would simply stop.

 AA> My vendors would often send catalog details with images and
 AA> attachments.  30% of the mail were messages over 100MB each!
 AA> About 30% more were emails between 20MB up to 100MB.  What a
 AA> friggin freakshow email has become.  Other messages had to do
 AA> with covid policies and announcements.

 AA> A lot of that sh*t simply had to go.

 AA> So, I decided to dedicate most of my day to purging old
 AA> material.  Man.. it was so cathartic to simply delete most of
 AA> the incoming messages from 2019 and 2020.

 AA> I deleted over 1140 pieces of email, some not even read.  But I
 AA> still had to walk through each and every one to ensure that I
 AA> wasn't deleting something like an invoice or a bill that I
 AA> needed.

 AA> Once the messages are deleted, the .PST file needs to be
 AA> compacted to eliminate the "empty spaces" and obtain the true
 AA> size of the file.

 AA> The result was a cool reduction from 1.96GB to:

 AA>  Directory of C:\OUTLOOK Data

 AA> 08/04/2021  09:39 AM     1,351,549,952 august.pst

 AA> That gives me some breathing room to grow again and ignore the
 AA> next batch of incoming crap.

 AA> --- OpenXP 5.0.49
 AA> (2:221/1.58)

install Thunderbird and problem solved... :)

--
Daniel

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