Re: - Outlook Express taking up 1.5 GB.. how can I free up?

From: Alias (maskedandanonymous_at_aka.com)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:46 +0200

When was the last time you compacted the messages in OE?

Have you checked to see the size of each .dbx?

Alias

"Jon Yeager" <no@nospam.com> wrote

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to free up space on my C: drive when I noticed :
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application
> Data\Identities\{17F35024-0370-425F-B525-64207616D10F}\Microsoft\Outlook
> Express
>
> ...was over 1.5 GB large.
>
> I went through all of my newsgroups and used the "catch-up" command on all
> of them, not 100% sure of what this does but figuring it couldn't hurt...
> but no space was freed up at all.
>
> How do I free up space here, or limit this folder to a reasonable 300 megs
> instead of 1.5 GB?
>
> Thanks!
>
>