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Your database will count &quot;white space&quot; or holes where deleted data was once. These are the first places filled in with new data, so the database should not grow.<br />
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Also, if Deleted Item Retention is set, then this can also take up space that is not counted under mailbox size.
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Your database will count "white space" or holes where deleted data was once. These are the first places filled in with new data, so the database should not grow.

Also, if Deleted Item Retention is set, then this can also take up space that is not counted under mailbox size.

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Thanks, worked like a charm.
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Hello,<br />
<br />
This thing is driving me crazy. I have an Exchange 2010 server up and running. In one of my disks there is a database that is reported to be 63GB in size (according to Exchange shell command). Nevertheless, the folder has a total file size of 100GB.<br />
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I don't know how to free the available space or to shrink the database.<br />
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Can anybody tell me how?<br />
<br />
Thank you
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Hello,

This thing is driving me crazy. I have an Exchange 2010 server up and running. In one of my disks there is a database that is reported to be 63GB in size (according to Exchange shell command). Nevertheless, the folder has a total file size of 100GB.

I don't know how to free the available space or to shrink the database.

Can anybody tell me how?

Thank you

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