Calendar file size

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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?
 
Could AutoArchiving have removed older items and background compaction
packed that empty space out?
 
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.
 
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 said:
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.
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This begs the question: why does he export?
 
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 said:
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?
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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.
 
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