Hi there

And thank you for the advice

I will try to get him to do this

But .............. :-)))


I will let you know how things get on

Rex


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rthompson wrote:
Hi to all of you

I've done a little search but cannot seem to find a similar question in
this
group
So if it has been posted before, my appologies

We have a pst file problem

On one of our computers, when we open Outlook it takes for ages to open
This is (apparently) mainly due to the VERY large pst file (8 years of
Emails with attachements etc)

Unfortunately he insists on having access to all of his emails once in a
while even those two, three or more years old
And as he is the managing director I have to accept it

Has anybody got an idea?

I'd recommend moving emails to archive PST files. You can even
do it automatically with the Archive function under
Tools\Options\Other.
Set it to run autoarchive once a day, then every few days change the
archive rule - set it up so it archives everything older than, say, 7
years
to an appropriately named file, then a few days later everything
older than 6 years to another, etc. Show the user how to use
File\Open to open the old archive folders when he needs to see
old emails. Get his PST file trimmed down to size and his
Outlook should run a *lot* faster, especially when he's doing things
like sorting emails.

One big reason he should do this: the bigger the PST file, the
more vulnerable it is to corruption. If that file gets corrupted
and the repair program (scanpst.exe) can't fix it, everything
will be gone unless he's got a backup.

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Walt Smith
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