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Our Exchange EDB is to large and keeps crashing, so we created another exchange database and moved a few mailboxes over. &nbsp;About 5 Gigs worth. &nbsp;However the size of the first edb is not shrinking at all. &nbsp;Even after a reboot. &nbsp;Is there a reason or a way to shrink the size of the old edb?
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Our Exchange EDB is to large and keeps crashing, so we created another exchange database and moved a few mailboxes over.  About 5 Gigs worth.  However the size of the first edb is not shrinking at all.  Even after a reboot.  Is there a reason or a way to shrink the size of the old edb?

Exchange 2007 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.