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Why did compacting my Outlook PST file just double the size of the file itself?

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Mar 15, 20268249 views
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Now, I'm a complete to Outlook 2007 administration, but after deleting a whole bunch (thousands? more?) of automated alerts, I decided to try a more immediate solution to tame my 2.2GB inbox PST. My first course of action was to compact the PST, via the Data File Management dialog and clicking on "…

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Basically put, you could create a new PST file and manually drag and drop everything over into it. This would then be set as your new delivery file and the old rather chunky PST file would be closed/deleted. Firstly, either disable sending and recei…

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