Oops... my apologies... Yes... Exchange 5.5 on W2K.

I'll take a look at Eseutil... I think I'd heard in the past that it wasn't
the safest thing in the world to use? Or am I thinking of something else???

Thanks,

Evan


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Dawn R. Ashford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, March 29, 2002 3:38 PM
To:     MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:        RE: Recovering lost space

Is that Exchange 5.5? Eseutil is what you're looking for. Q182903 will give
you command line parameters.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Recovering lost space


I think this may be a commonly asked question, which is bad because I should
be able to find the answer better than I have, but good because it may be
easy to answer :-)

I've finally got a lot of mail archived to PST's. Probably about $GB in
various files. Now, as I think is usually the case, the priv.edb file size
has not shrunk (still 8GB). What the safest way to shrink this? While I
still have 5GB free on the array, I use NT Backup to backup Exchange to my
file server each night. That file then gets picked up on tape, which is only
40GB, and I've been at that limit forever, removing new things from the
backup each night to keep it under the limit. I need to cut this size down
if possible....

Thanks,

Evan

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