Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Compacting Microsoft Outlook PST files

If you ever notice a loooonng delay in compacting Outlook PST file, I strongly recommend running scanpst.exe on the PST file and then do a retry. ScanPST fixes certain errors in the PST file that allows the compacting process to not get blocked.

Recently I observed that compacting a 5.4 GB Outlook PST file to 2.7 GB took around 10 hrs on my Dell Latitude D630 laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor!!

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