PST keeps getting larger

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Outlook 2007 PST file gets larger although I delete every email larger than
100kb. Sometimes it increases from 130mb to 155mb and even 170mb
occasionally. I run Personal Folders Backup, before it is 132mb and after is
144mb. Where is all this data coming from? Thank you.
 
Thats not large;
You have to Compact the set of Personal Folders (Properties) in order to
reduce the size, but with the size you show its unlikely to have any impact
 
DL said:
Thats not large;
You have to Compact the set of Personal Folders (Properties) in order to
reduce the size, but with the size you show its unlikely to have any
impact
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Thank you but I have already compacted.
 
The size you show 100mb+ isnt actually particularly large.
If you dont perminently delete or empty your deleted folder from time to
time, the contents will be reflected in the total size of the pst
Generally you have to delete a significant ammount of data before any size
reduction is reflected in compacting.
 
I'm having a similar issue, but my file is up to 1.5 GB, and after deleting
nearly *everything* in the file and compacting there was no reduction in file
size at all. When I look at the file's properties within Outlook to see how
much space the various types of data are taking up, this is all I see:

Calendar: 552k
Deleted Items: 73k

I've tried compacting in Properties > Advanced > Compact Now, but the file
is still 1,493,969KB. To test this, I took another file that was 321MB,
deleted 100% of everything in the file, and compacted. It is now only 1MB.

The one difference I noticed while compacting the files is that the 1.5 GB
file only took a few seconds and didn't compact at all, whereas this 321MB
file took a couple minutes and compacted fine. When I go back to compact the
1.5GB file again, it still only takes a second and the file size doesn't
change. So it looks like the compact process just isn't running for this
particular file. Is there any way to force it somehow, or some other way?

Thanks,
Chris

P.S. You might wonder why I don't just delete these files if I'm deleting
all the data in them, but I'd like to know what is causing this, for future
reference... and besides, as a matter of principle I'd just like to know I
won this battle against my PC. :)
 
One more thing... I don't think my files are spontaneously getting bigger, so
I apologize if this wasn't the best thread to respond to. However, the
original poster said nothing happens when they compact so I thought this
might be related.
 
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