Thanks Hal! Shows you how much I compact things huh? :-) Good thing it wasn't 1gb. Would have taken an hour! :-( *-----Original Message----- *From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On *Behalf Of Hal Cardona *Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:06 PM *To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject: [mso] Re: Outlook PST File * * * *Charles you need to compress it. Right click on Outlook today and *select properties and then Advanced and select compress. * *Hal Cardona *PC Sleuth - http://www.pcsleuth.com *Owner WinXPHelp Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinXPHelp *Author - ABComputers http://personal-computer-tutor.com/ABC.htm * * * *-----Original Message----- *From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On *Behalf Of Charles R. Buchanan *Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:01 PM *To: MS Office Mailing List *Subject: [mso] Outlook PST File * * * *Maybe I'm missing something (as usual) here. I just exported all my *messages to a backup pst file. So I went and deleted all the messages *within Outlook. However the outlook.pst is still huge. (160mb) Would not *getting rid of all those messages shrink that file? Or does something *else have to happen? * * *--- *Look OUT you varmits, This msg is Virus Free! *Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). *Version: 6.0.386 / Virus Database: 218 - Release Date: 9/9/2002 * * ************************************************************** *You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * *To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx * *To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to *mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe * *Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will *also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no *mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso * *To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, *send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an *invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, *you can go here to upload/download files: *http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************** * * ************************************************************** *You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to *mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * *To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx * *To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to *mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe * *Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This *will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or *vacation (no mail). *//www.freelists.org/webpage/mso * *To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the *group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will *be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of *the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: *http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************** * --- Look OUT you varmits, This msg is Virus Free! Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.386 / Virus Database: 218 - Release Date: 9/9/2002 ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************