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Automatic compacting PST files

How can I automate compacting PST files? Is there a way, for example, of compacting automatically on exit (as for emptying the deleted items folder)? Alternatively, is it possible to add a toolbar button which compacts the default PST file (or all open PST files)?

Thanks for your help,

pfsnet

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Zak Godwin

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Thanks, Sentinel0

What is the other feature built into Outlook?

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Frankco

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Thanks,

Sentinel0, was that the feature you were thinking of, or is there something else that will "compact once a day"?

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Frankco

Hi pfsnet,

Outlook already ccompacts pst automatically, just let it sit for a while. Is this not working?

cheers,
frankco

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We have some very big PST files that need to manually compacted. The automatic compaction when idle function doesn't seem to work well enough.

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Thanks to all for your help.

I have already seen the websites for the products mentioned (sentinel0's PSTCompactor and mike's PST Compress). Are you recommending them from personal experience, or have you just found them by a web search?

Frankco's comment directly answers the first part of my question, so he also deserves credit.

I would have preferred a simple solution to force a PST compaction within Outlook/Windows, but it looks like that is not possible, so I'm just going to close the question and split the points.