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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Showing posts with label Outlook. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Friday, July 3, 2009
Caching in Outlook
A very informative KB article on Offline Address books in Outlook. Must read for anyone designing offline support in an application.
Outlook.sharing.xml.obi contains RSS subscription names.
extend.dat is an internal cache file used by Outlook to store paths to all DLL files used for Outlook extensions.
Outlook.sharing.xml.obi contains RSS subscription names.
extend.dat is an internal cache file used by Outlook to store paths to all DLL files used for Outlook extensions.
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