Always checkng personal folders

[Dan Nease]

I have been using Outlook 2003 for years. The past few months it has become super picky about how I close Outlook. If not closed PERFECTLY, it starts the next time with a lengthy checking of personal folders. Lately it is almost unusable in that it will check personal folders several times per day.
It also takes a LONG time for send/receive to load the new messages.
The whole program has become VERY slow.
I have 7,628 messages in my inbox and who knows how many in my sent file.
Just today, I upgraded to Outlook 2007 hoping that this will help.
In the bottom left hand corner, it says "35,805 items".

Would love to know how I can restore my Outlook's functionality and especially get it to stop checking personal folders all the time.

Regards,
Dan

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[DL]

And what size is your data file (Personal folders)?
If you select Personal Folders, rt click, Properties, in Advanced Tab, what
does it say for Format?
97 - 2002 maybe?
And what third party add-ins are you using, eg Anti Virus, sync tools, fax
software etc?
Why have you not used the Archive options?

 

[Dan Nease]

My personal folder data file is 7446406 KB. Format is Personal Folders File.
I use efax and Avira for anti-virus.
I do use archive. Outlook prompts me periodically to archive and I always say yes. Maybe I should change the rules so that it archives more emails?
Thanks,
Dan


DL wrote on Sun, 12 April 2009 06:40

And what size is your data file (Personal folders)?
If you select Personal Folders, rt click, Properties, in Advanced Tab, what
does it say for Format?
97 - 2002 maybe?
And what third party add-ins are you using, eg Anti Virus, sync tools, fax
software etc?
Why have you not used the Archive options?

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[Dan Nease]

My personal folder data file is 7446406 KB. Format is Personal Folders File.
I use efax and Avira for anti-virus.
I do use archive. Outlook prompts me periodically to archive and I always say yes. Maybe I should change the rules so that it archives more emails?
Thanks,
Dan



DL wrote on Sun, 12 April 2009 06:40

And what size is your data file (Personal folders)?
If you select Personal Folders, rt click, Properties, in Advanced Tab, what
does it say for Format?
97 - 2002 maybe?
And what third party add-ins are you using, eg Anti Virus, sync tools, fax
software etc?
Why have you not used the Archive options?

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[Dan Nease]

My personal folder data file is 7446406 KB. Format is Personal Folders File.
I use efax and Avira for anti-virus.
I do use archive. Outlook prompts me periodically to archive and I always say yes. Maybe I should change the rules so that it archives more emails?
Thanks,
Dan.
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[DL]

Thats a fairly large folder set 7.4gb and 7.6k msgs in your Inbox seems
rather a lot
I believe the default Auto Archive setting is for older than 6 months, maybe
you need to adjust, and baring mind the size of your current folder set you
might want to consider creating a new archive by year