"kaczor47" <kaczo***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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|I have attempted to find the answer to this question by searching this
| group, but to no avail....
|
| Until recently I was running Outlook 2003 with a single pst file.
| However, given that it has reached 800MB, and since I wanted to split
| the storage of personal and work emails, I decided to create 2
| additional pst files ('personal' and 'work'). I did just that,
| following which I moved the relevant folders from within my Inbox
| structure to the two personal folders.
| To my suprise the original .pst file did not change in size. I shut
| down, restarted. I also tried to compact it, which brought it down to
| approx 500MB (from 800MB). Given that, AFAIK, it only holds my address
| book, calendar and about 20 emails in the inbox, I don't  understand
| why it is still so large?
|
| could someone shed some light on this?
|
| thank you kindly.
|

> Try viewing Folder List in the left pane, selecting your parent folder
> (typically "Personal Folder") from the Folder List, select Properties, then
> click on the Folder Size button.  This will show you the breakdown of all
> subfolders and their respective sizes.  With that, you'll at least know
> which folder(s) are the culprits that are still taking up space.
>
> "kaczor47" <kaczo***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1160716683.490469.210100@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> |I have attempted to find the answer to this question by searching this
> | group, but to no avail....
> |
> | Until recently I was running Outlook 2003 with a single pst file.
> | However, given that it has reached 800MB, and since I wanted to split
> | the storage of personal and work emails, I decided to create 2
> | additional pst files ('personal' and 'work'). I did just that,
> | following which I moved the relevant folders from within my Inbox
> | structure to the two personal folders.
> | To my suprise the original .pst file did not change in size. I shut
> | down, restarted. I also tried to compact it, which brought it down to
> | approx 500MB (from 800MB). Given that, AFAIK, it only holds my address
> | book, calendar and about 20 emails in the inbox, I don't  understand
> | why it is still so large?
> |
> | could someone shed some light on this?
> |
> | thank you kindly.
> |

"kaczor47" <kaczo***@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1160716683.490469.210100@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
>I have attempted to find the answer to this question by searching this
> group, but to no avail....
>
> Until recently I was running Outlook 2003 with a single pst file.
> However, given that it has reached 800MB, and since I wanted to split
> the storage of personal and work emails, I decided to create 2
> additional pst files ('personal' and 'work'). I did just that,
> following which I moved the relevant folders from within my Inbox
> structure to the two personal folders.
> To my suprise the original .pst file did not change in size. I shut
> down, restarted. I also tried to compact it, which brought it down to
> approx 500MB (from 800MB). Given that, AFAIK, it only holds my address
> book, calendar and about 20 emails in the inbox, I don't  understand
> why it is still so large?
>
> could someone shed some light on this?
>
> thank you kindly.
>