Is there a reason for not using the Archive options?

"Basharat A. Javaid" wrote in message
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I started out with pst file of 2.1GB. I deleted many thousands of old
emails from the InBox & Sent folders but the file size did not budge very
much. For example, number of emails in the InBox went down from 8,000+ to
3,000 or so!

Why did the pst file size not reduce significantly - I expected at least
50%+ reduction.


Basharat.