How Can I Reduce Size of pst Files?

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From: GordonC (GordonC_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:21:05 -0800

I have 2 Gigs of *.pst files in Outlook 2002. I have deleted at least half
of the messages, but the file sizes are unchanged. I have used archive, and
ran it all night. The file sizes went down by 50 meg. This process is
terribly slow. How can it be sped up? 

-- 
Gordon Clark

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