Unless this a corporate environment in which restrictions have been set, the
archive function enables you to select the date upon which archive works
If you are able to create a new pst then you only need to move files to the
new pst, which can remain open within outlook

"Basharat A. Javaid" wrote in message
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Not really. I wanted to archive emails more than two years old (I
frequently have to dig up old emails). The archive function allows up to
60 days old files only. So I backed up my large pest file and then
created a smaller file by deleting emails older than two years. May be
not an efficient way to accomplish my goal but I didn't any other way.

Thanks,

Basharat.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
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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.