You need limits. The size will just grow again to what it was, and beyond, without limits. If you need the disk space back, you can offline defrag. If you don't need the space back, put limits in place and just live with the larger file. ________________________________ From: Praveen Ramaswamy [mailto:ramaswamy_praveen@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:01 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] exchange DB growing!! Need advice http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi, Exchange database is growing. I asked many users to download mails to personal folder, which they did. But I feel even after this database size is not reducing. Should I run offline defrag?? Please advice. I have exchange 2003 on windows 2003 Regards Praveen R ________________________________ What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=38382/_ylc=X3oDMTEzNWFva2Y2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2B HNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDMmF1dG9z/*http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/popular/ thisweek.html> ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx