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A client regularly exports his calendar every week. After 4 weeks, he
noticed his file size went from 55 Meg down to 29 Meg without deleting any appointments or attachments. It appears all the data is there, but we would like to know why the file size became smaller? How does Windows XP or Outlook 2003 calculate the file size? Could there be something wrong with the way his system is calculating the file size? -- kaffelatte |
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Could AutoArchiving have removed older items and background compaction
packed that empty space out? "kaffelatte" wrote in message ... A client regularly exports his calendar every week. After 4 weeks, he noticed his file size went from 55 Meg down to 29 Meg without deleting any appointments or attachments. It appears all the data is there, but we would like to know why the file size became smaller? How does Windows XP or Outlook 2003 calculate the file size? Could there be something wrong with the way his system is calculating the file size? |
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To our knowledge autoarchiving is not turned on and he goes through the same
steps each week. He's fairly technical, so I don't believe he's done anything differently for the past month. -- kaffelatte "Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Could AutoArchiving have removed older items and background compaction packed that empty space out? "kaffelatte" wrote in message ... A client regularly exports his calendar every week. After 4 weeks, he noticed his file size went from 55 Meg down to 29 Meg without deleting any appointments or attachments. It appears all the data is there, but we would like to know why the file size became smaller? How does Windows XP or Outlook 2003 calculate the file size? Could there be something wrong with the way his system is calculating the file size? |
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I just spoke with the client to confirm that auto archiving is not turned on
and he informed me that when he exported the calendar this past Friday, it is now back to the 59 Meg file size. -- kaffelatte "kaffelatte" wrote: To our knowledge autoarchiving is not turned on and he goes through the same steps each week. He's fairly technical, so I don't believe he's done anything differently for the past month. -- kaffelatte "Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Could AutoArchiving have removed older items and background compaction packed that empty space out? "kaffelatte" wrote in message ... A client regularly exports his calendar every week. After 4 weeks, he noticed his file size went from 55 Meg down to 29 Meg without deleting any appointments or attachments. It appears all the data is there, but we would like to know why the file size became smaller? How does Windows XP or Outlook 2003 calculate the file size? Could there be something wrong with the way his system is calculating the file size? |
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kaffelatte wrote:
I just spoke with the client to confirm that auto archiving is not turned on and he informed me that when he exported the calendar this past Friday, it is now back to the 59 Meg file size. This begs the question: why does he export? -- Brian Tillman |
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Even though I've shown him how to copy his calendar, he prefers to export it.
When we copied his calendar into a new pst we also noticed a difference in the file size of the Calendar.pst versus the size of the folder. I just replicated the process on my system and the file folder for my calendar is 142K while the calendar.pst file is 1009K. Shouldn't the file sizes be much closer? -- kaffelatte "Brian Tillman" wrote: kaffelatte wrote: I just spoke with the client to confirm that auto archiving is not turned on and he informed me that when he exported the calendar this past Friday, it is now back to the 59 Meg file size. This begs the question: why does he export? -- Brian Tillman |
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kaffelatte wrote:
Even though I've shown him how to copy his calendar, he prefers to export it. When we copied his calendar into a new pst we also noticed a difference in the file size of the Calendar.pst versus the size of the folder. I just replicated the process on my system and the file folder for my calendar is 142K while the calendar.pst file is 1009K. Shouldn't the file sizes be much closer? There seems to be only a marginal correspondence betwen the size of a folder and a PST containing that folder, other than that the PST itself will always be larger than the folder(s) it contains. There is more to a PST than just the data you can see. -- Brian Tillman |
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