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big .pst file and Outlook 2007 slowdown
Hello
I'm using Outlook 2007.
My .pst file has grown to 6 GB.
The performance of Outlook has decreased.
I have done .pst compaction (for the first time) but it didn't help.
In addition to that when I right click "Personal folders" and display folder size, the size shown is around 3 GB.
My questions are:
1) what is the reason for the gap between 6 GB (physical pst size) and 3 GB (personal folder size shown in Outlook)?
2) what shall I do to increase speed of outlook?
- use some external compression program to compress .pst? if so, then which one?
- increase number of .pst files?
- delete e-mails? :)
- change e-mail software and migrate my .pst file?
- any other ideas?
3) I found software called "SysInfoTools PST Compress And Compact".
It compresses all attachments to .zip files.
Are there any alternatives which perform compaction only - that is, they do what Outlook does but better? (as I said, Outlook compaction did not help me, maybe because I didn't run compaction on a regular basis and now the pst file is too big for Outlook to do the compaction right?)
I do not want all my attachments to be moved to zip archives.
thank you very much,
Jarek
I'm using Outlook 2007.
My .pst file has grown to 6 GB.
The performance of Outlook has decreased.
I have done .pst compaction (for the first time) but it didn't help.
In addition to that when I right click "Personal folders" and display folder size, the size shown is around 3 GB.
My questions are:
1) what is the reason for the gap between 6 GB (physical pst size) and 3 GB (personal folder size shown in Outlook)?
2) what shall I do to increase speed of outlook?
- use some external compression program to compress .pst? if so, then which one?
- increase number of .pst files?
- delete e-mails? :)
- change e-mail software and migrate my .pst file?
- any other ideas?
3) I found software called "SysInfoTools PST Compress And Compact".
It compresses all attachments to .zip files.
Are there any alternatives which perform compaction only - that is, they do what Outlook does but better? (as I said, Outlook compaction did not help me, maybe because I didn't run compaction on a regular basis and now the pst file is too big for Outlook to do the compaction right?)
I do not want all my attachments to be moved to zip archives.
thank you very much,
Jarek
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This is my guess. Nevertheless, I'd like to decrease the size of my .pst file since it may cause problems - at least that's what I read on the web.
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Hi BlueDevilFan
thanks for feedback.
1. to what format shall I export from existing PST? I haven't done this before.
2. will I lose any data/settings like folder structure after this operation (export and import to new PST file)?
Jarek
thanks for feedback.
1. to what format shall I export from existing PST? I haven't done this before.
2. will I lose any data/settings like folder structure after this operation (export and import to new PST file)?
Jarek
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What makes you think that the size of the PST file is related to the slowdown?