A
ATK31
Could someone please help with the following peculiar phenomenon with OUTLOOK
2007?
I edit received messages by deleting the “history†(the previous
correspondence included by the sender) and leave only the new text written by
the sender. I then store the messages “AS PLAIN TEXTâ€. The motivation is to
keep the PST file small.
When I reopen one of those edited received messages, I notice that the
ENCODING is “Western European (Windows)â€. When I change the ENCODING to “US
ASCIIâ€, ALL THE DELETED TEXT REAPPEARS!
The described strange phenomenon implies that the OUTLOOK did not actually
delete the text removed when the received messages were edited and hence the
PST file stores plenty of obsolete data. (The deleted “history†was usually
much larger than the useful text that I wanted to retain.)
The size of the PST file has already increased by about 100% when I imported
it from OFFICE 2000 to OFFICE 2007 and applying COMPRESSION did not reduce
the size.
Is there a way to really DELETE the redundant text and keep only the data
that I need in plain text and thus to keep the PST file small?
Thank you for your help.
ATK
2007?
I edit received messages by deleting the “history†(the previous
correspondence included by the sender) and leave only the new text written by
the sender. I then store the messages “AS PLAIN TEXTâ€. The motivation is to
keep the PST file small.
When I reopen one of those edited received messages, I notice that the
ENCODING is “Western European (Windows)â€. When I change the ENCODING to “US
ASCIIâ€, ALL THE DELETED TEXT REAPPEARS!
The described strange phenomenon implies that the OUTLOOK did not actually
delete the text removed when the received messages were edited and hence the
PST file stores plenty of obsolete data. (The deleted “history†was usually
much larger than the useful text that I wanted to retain.)
The size of the PST file has already increased by about 100% when I imported
it from OFFICE 2000 to OFFICE 2007 and applying COMPRESSION did not reduce
the size.
Is there a way to really DELETE the redundant text and keep only the data
that I need in plain text and thus to keep the PST file small?
Thank you for your help.
ATK