My Outlook Database is too large!

If you use Microsoft's venerable Outlook for email, scheduling etc.... you may have wondered why, in spite of your regular deletion of old emails and appointments, your data file continues to grow?

Yes, you have purged your Deleted Items folder. Yes, you have archived older items. Of course you have.

So why does the Outlook data file continue to grow in size, slowing down Outlook and my important work?

When was the last time you compressed your Outlook data file? Let me guess, you have no idea what I just said.

Over time, your Outlook data file grows and grows in spite of the fact you delete emails and purge your deleted items folder. The emails may be gone but the space they occupied in the database is still there. We will call this space "Blank Space". Compressing your Outlook data file gets rid of all this "Blank Space", something you should do on a regular basis.

I have seen clients whose Outlook data files were compressed to a quarter of their original size using this Outlook data file compression technique.


Food for thought eh! The technique will be explained in my next post. Check this out in the meantime.