Why is my Pst File Sol Large

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richardpu

Why is my pst so large? It is 162 mb. But it only contains about 575
e-mails, included deleted items. Also, I have software that removes
attachments and leaves only a link in the pst. If you took all of the text,
and put it into a wordprocessing program, it wouldn't be more than a 1 mb.

I don't like having such a large pst because it slows up my daily backups.
I know I can archive some of the e-mails, but with only 500 emails (not
including the deleted items), spanning 2.5 months, it shouldn't be necessary
to do that. Does the size of the pst sound normal sound normal?
 
G

Gordon

richardpu said:
Why is my pst so large? It is 162 mb. But it only contains about 575
e-mails, included deleted items. Also, I have software that removes
attachments and leaves only a link in the pst. If you took all of the
text,
and put it into a wordprocessing program, it wouldn't be more than a 1 mb.

I don't like having such a large pst because it slows up my daily backups.
I know I can archive some of the e-mails, but with only 500 emails (not
including the deleted items), spanning 2.5 months, it shouldn't be
necessary
to do that. Does the size of the pst sound normal sound normal?
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Version of Outlook? Have you COMPACTED the pst file?
 
D

DL

Why are you storing anything in the Deleted Folder, unless you remove the
older, after a few days
Presumably you have Contacts, Calendar items, possibly tasks & reminders etc
You've tried Compacting the pst?
162mb is not large, and certainly should not cause backups to run slow. My
daily *online* backup , which includes 200mb of pst's takes 10 mins. And a
full data weekly incremental backup to external takes less than that, about
2 or 3 mins
 
R

Robert Lee

That was a helpful suggestion. Compacting the pst reduced it from 162 to 99
mb.

That still sounds large to me, though. If you took all of the text and put
it into a word processing program, it wouldn't come to 1 mb. But I guess it
isn't meaningful to compare the two.
 

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