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You have to do an offline defrag to recover white space.<br />
You do this using eseutil /d .<br />
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Here's more info<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q192185&" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q192185&</a><br />
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Before you do this make sure you have enough free space for the temp .edb that gets created.Check out the size of your databases and make sure you have this amount + another 10% free space.
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You have to do an offline defrag to recover white space.
You do this using eseutil /d .

Here's more info

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q192185& [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q192185&]

Before you do this make sure you have enough free space for the temp .edb that gets created.Check out the size of your databases and make sure you have this amount + another 10% free space.

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Thanks. Sorry for the late response.<br />
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Notorious......
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Thanks. Sorry for the late response.

Notorious......

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Hi,<br />
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Could someone please let me know how i would go about Recovering White Space in an Exchange Database. I have asked members of staff to delete all unwanted emails but no space is recovered. I am using Ms Exchange 5.5 Enterprise.<br />
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Notorious....
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Hi,

Could someone please let me know how i would go about Recovering White Space in an Exchange Database. I have asked members of staff to delete all unwanted emails but no space is recovered. I am using Ms Exchange 5.5 Enterprise.

Notorious....

Recovering White Space in an Exchange Database

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.