Ok, I'll give it a try and report back..........Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Colin McDonald > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:56 AM > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mso] Re: Problem Compacting outlook.pst > > > > Hi Peter > > > Well try my suggestion anyway to see if it works with that > batch of files. It does do some compacting in the background > when idle. So if you are only deleting a few each day, it > might have been able to keep on top of your compact without > you knowing it. > > > The M$ KB site > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q29164 > 5 says " .... Automatic compaction takes place as an idle > task in the background. The following conditions must be true > for this background task to take > place: ..." > > If you try my suggestion, you'll know whether the manual > compaction works or not. > ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************