That worked. Thanks.

"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote in message
...
Additionally you may want to run Compact on your PST file (after you
restart Outlook). Right-click the root folder of the file in the Folder
List view, choose Properties, Advanced...

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"Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook)" judy wrote in message
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Close Outlook. Open Outlook and take another look. I think that's all it
takes to show you the new smaller size.

Regards

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MVP Outlook

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"Basharat A. Javaid" wrote in message
...

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.