Outllook PST file and user info questions

[csdev]

1. How do you determine the amount of free/used space in a PST file. If I
understand correctly, for Outlook 2002 PST files have a limit of about 2GB.
As items are added to the PST file, the files size on disk grows. However,
when an item is removed from the PST file, freeing space within the file, the
file's size on disk remains the same. So even though there is free space in
the file, this cannot be determined by using a system call to check to size
of the file on disk. Is there a way to determine the amount of free or used
space in a PST file using Visual Basic and CDO?

2. I would like to determine the name of the current outlook user using
Visual Basic/CDO. This can be done using a Session.CurrentUser.Name call;
however, this call accesses the current user as an outlook AddressEntry
Object. Accessing an AddressEntry Object with CDO causes a security pop up
asking the user whether they would like to allow the program to access their
address book. Is there anyway to get the name of the current user without
causing this pop up, ie. is there are way to get the name without accessing
an AddressEntry Object?

Thanks,
csdev

 

[Michael Bauer]

Am Mon, 1 Aug 2005 05:27:03 -0700 schrieb csdev:

1. AFAIK you´d need to loop trhough all items and add their size property.
2. From VB you´d have to use Redemption from www.dimastr.com.