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   Hello August.   
      
   08 Apr 21 22:48, you wrote to All:   
      
    AA> Hello All!   
      
    AA> I use MS Outlook for email at my shop.  Over a year has   
    AA> transpired since the covid stuff took over my life and I hadn't   
    AA> been feeling like keeping up with the pace of incoming emails   
    AA> that could normally be deleted.  Sure enough, I was reaching the   
    AA> 2GB limit that MS Outlook has with its email .PST files.   
      
    AA> My .PST file was at about 1.96GB   
      
    AA> From there, it wouldn't be long before incoming email and the   
    AA> ability to even delete emails would simply stop.   
      
    AA> My vendors would often send catalog details with images and   
    AA> attachments.  30% of the mail were messages over 100MB each!   
    AA> About 30% more were emails between 20MB up to 100MB.  What a   
    AA> friggin freakshow email has become.  Other messages had to do   
    AA> with covid policies and announcements.   
      
    AA> A lot of that sh*t simply had to go.   
      
    AA> So, I decided to dedicate most of my day to purging old   
    AA> material.  Man.. it was so cathartic to simply delete most of   
    AA> the incoming messages from 2019 and 2020.   
      
    AA> I deleted over 1140 pieces of email, some not even read.  But I   
    AA> still had to walk through each and every one to ensure that I   
    AA> wasn't deleting something like an invoice or a bill that I   
    AA> needed.   
      
    AA> Once the messages are deleted, the .PST file needs to be   
    AA> compacted to eliminate the "empty spaces" and obtain the true   
    AA> size of the file.   
      
    AA> The result was a cool reduction from 1.96GB to:   
      
    AA>  Directory of C:\OUTLOOK Data   
      
    AA> 08/04/2021  09:39 AM     1,351,549,952 august.pst   
      
    AA> That gives me some breathing room to grow again and ignore the   
    AA> next batch of incoming crap.   
      
    AA> --- OpenXP 5.0.49   
    AA>  * Origin: Mobile? COFFEE_KLATSCH = https://tinyurl.com/y56r9f2o   
    AA> (2:221/1.58)   
      
   install Thunderbird and problem solved... :)   
      
   --   
   Daniel   
      
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