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

From: Don Burnette (d.burnette_at_clothes.comcast.net)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:12:14 -0500

Jon Yeager 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!

Unless you do maintenance on your OE folders, they will just continue to
grow in size.
Here is what I do at least bi-weekly.

With OE open, click on File, the click on Work Offline.
Go to tools, Options, then click on the maintenance tab.
Click on the " clean up now" tab, to clean up your downloaded messages.
Click on delete, to delete all the downloaded messages.
Once they are deleted, you have to compact the folders, or the size of them
will remain the same as before you deleted the messages.
Click on " compact", and then it should reduce the size considerably.
Don't forget to select " work online" again after you are done. 

-- 
Don Burnette

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