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Deleting 100,000 emails from Outlook that freezes when opening?
I have a user that has a subfolder in his inbox with more than a hundred thousand emails. He cannot delete as his Outlook 2010 crashes when it tries. Is there a way I can delete them? I have full administrative rights. .. Thank you.
Steven Carnahan
Have you tried setting the autoarchive for that folder to permanantly delete old items and run the autoarchive?
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Yes, but its late for that . . .
Okay, next question: Is this on a domain with an Exchange server?
You should have success deleting them through OWA, but depending on your archive settings on the server this will not free up space for several days or even months.
Have you considered exporting the users mailbox to pst then importing into a new mailbox? You could use the "ExcludeFolders" parameter to exclude this particular folder.
Have you considered exporting the users mailbox to pst then importing into a new mailbox? You could use the "ExcludeFolders" parameter to exclude this particular folder.
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Yes on a Domain with Exchange. OWA would be fine but this would take too long. He might have above 500 K email. . The last part might work. If I archive only the troublesome subfolder . . . I wouldnt have to be connceted to Exchange for that correct. . . ?
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Actually to do the autoarchive Outlook would need to be connected as it is a function of Outlook however it would run in the background allowing other work to be done (including sending/receiving other email).
I believe you could use exmerge for what you are wanting to accomplish:
http://www.petri.co.il/delete_messages_from_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm is an article on useing it.
I believe you could use exmerge for what you are wanting to accomplish:
http://www.petri.co.il/delete_messages_from_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm is an article on useing it.
@pony10us - The question is tagged with Exchange 2007. ExMerge is for Exchange 2003 and prior.
good point. I missed that. <hanging head in shame> :)
Your correct it has been replaced with export-mailbox however exmerge does work with 2007 as shown here: http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=88
Your correct it has been replaced with export-mailbox however exmerge does work with 2007 as shown here: http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=88
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I shall give this a shot. Thanks.