Removing Recoverable Items in PST file

Attached is file is PDF of how to recover files and folders.  I am including it to show the menu screen to purge the Recover Deleted Items Folder as shown here.


This is found by clicking Folder tab in ribbon, then in the ribbon section named "Clean Up" click on Recover Deleted Items.

I will see if I can attach the helpful article and video in a minute or so.

You probably have to be connected to your email server in order for the Recovery files to be deleted there.

Found it.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Recover-deleted-items-in-Outlook-for-Windows-49E81F3C-C8F4-4426-A0B9-C0FD751D48CE?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Is this what you're trying to do?

I am NOT trying to recover anything - I am trying to purge the Recoverable Items from the PST file.

Outlook doesn’t shrink directly PST file when you delete something from it, for performance reasons. You have two options 1: wait for this to happen (auto compact), 2: manually- use compact process via compact now. In your scenario, you also use compact now, so I think you needs to wait for Outlook auto compact. When more than 20% of the total size of the PST file out of white space Outlook will shrink the file in background process when your computer in the idle.

I have tried to use the COMPACT NOW, and it did not work.
I ran the file through the PST file checker (ScanPST), and it did find some issues.
I am running the COMPACT NOW again - it has been running for 10 hours, but at least I am seeing the size of the PST file shrinking from 40G to 36G (and continuing to shrink slowly).

Either solution provided works.  Recommend split points.

Both solutions provide a working answer.