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From: Jay (sonrisa322_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:21:47 -0500

Lanwench,

Good suggestions; I'm pretty good on BU's but very bad on PST bloat (as you
can tell); it takes about 3 minutes to backup my 1 GB (approx) PST file now,
to a USB hard drive. This weekend I plan to export a great deal of my PST
file's messages to TXT files (and prune some attachments too, saving some
elsewhere on my hard drive) and then compact the PST file; I've got to get
it down to 1/3 or less of its present size (just under 1 GB).

Additionally, I'm thinking of using the "shrunken" PST file described above,
as an archive PST file, and starting over (i.e., with e-mail messages
received and sent, say from this Monday, forward) with a fresh PST file, but
with the same toolbars and folder structure. So, hypothetically, Monday, I
will have OL 2000 configured so that it will open the "new" PST file, alone,
sans any messages, but with all my folders ready to be filled up anew.

Can you suggest the easiest way to clone the soon to be "shrunken" PST file,
but without any messages, just the existing configurations, toolbars and
existing folder tree; I'll call this the "new" PST file. jay

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