I appreciate the response. That's the only thing I could think it was doing, but wanted some confirmation. I just had not paid attention before so I wasn't expecting to see that happening when just importing. Did think the original file would actually be altered in any way.
Thanks again. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Alexander Rose <arose...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen it happen for numerous PST especially old ones, i think it has > to do with fragmentation of the PST file, importing the file creates a new > one not fragmented at all, same thing happens would happen if you had used > the Compact Now button in Outlook under File Properties). > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Greg Saunders > <gsaund...@myitanalyst.com>wrote: > >> Setup new exchange user in Outlook 2010 with caching to OST file. >> >> I am doing a File / Open / Import to import a previous PST file. This >> one happened to be around 7GB, but done many over last few days. >> >> I just happened to be watching this one all the way through... not just >> what Outlook is saying, but watching the OST and PST file sizes. >> >> Outlook was importing and while it is doing this you see the dialog box. >> Eventually the dialog box goes away as if everything is done. >> >> Now I don't close Outlook yet, because I can tell the OST file is still >> syncing with exchange. Once it looks like it is done I will close Outlook >> and move the PST file to an archive folder in case we ever need it. >> >> BUT what I noticed in this case was the PST file was shrinking in size. >> I did NOT expect to see this. It kept gradually decreasing in size. In >> this case it went from 7GB down to 2.6GB when it finally stopped shrinking. >> >> WHY is it doing that. I didn't think importing actually altered the PST >> file... I thought it just IMPORTED... not take anything out of it. Is it >> possible it was compressing itself after the import? I am guess all it did >> was compress it since after closing and re-opening everything both files >> seem to have the same number of items. >> >> Greg >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist >> > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
