Holy sh*t!!!

[joohang]

My Outlook .pst file reached 50 megs!

And this is after I lost a couple of years worth of emails in October of 1999 and deleted most of the mailing list mails. Most of my emails are plain text too..

Damn...

I guess I'll start archiving some of my older emails.

 

[yobarman]

whats the .pst file?

 

[kami]

thats it? my .pst file from correspondance w/ one person is about 21megs

 

[IcemanJer]

the database file that Outlook use to store all the contacts and email messages and calendar events, etc. etc. (and a lot more etc.s).

 

[mastaki11a]

Pssst, that's amazing!

 

[DaveJ]

50 megs? Geez, I hit my 50MB quota at work about every 6 months or so... At home I have over 300MB of mail, dating from summer 1997... would have more but I lost 2 years of it due to stupidity on my part...

Dave

 

[joohang]

Reminds me of the Windows 2000 conference I went to 2 years ago. During the session discussing about disk quotas, somebody brought up the issue of Outlook .pst files growing over 20 megs. The Microsoft person (and most people in the room) laughed at it.. although I could relate to him and took it quite seriously.

It looks like most people delete their emails and Microsoft expects most business users to do so (I think), but I like to keep them. And if my administrator keeps my disk quota to 30 megs, it could potentially be a problem, unless I archive my mail.

 

[emjem]

Anybody ever try to just publish their emails as a book?

 

[RossMAN]

137MB here but there's a reason, I am to lazy and never delete my SPAM.

 

[MrChicken]

I've got people at my office with 600MB PST's. That doesnt include their mailbox, which is capped at 40mb.

 

[Muadib]

The shift + delete combo is your friend.

 

[LAUST]

I don't know how anyone would sift through 2 Gig of mail, but hey least I don't have to

 

[bacillus]

<< The shift + delete combo is your friend. >>


lol

 

[Nestico]

I was away for a few days and for some reason Outlook kept downloading the same emails over and over, When I came back, I had well over 45,000 unread messages.

<edit> I forgot to mention, Outlook crashed horribly and I lost all of that email too.

 

[GL]

I once worked with an IT guy that subscribed to every e-mail list imagineable. His goal was to have so much information in his Outlook .pst file that he could search it first before going off to the web. In 1997 his .pst file reached 1GB. I'm sure it is much much much larger now. As for me. mine is closing in on the 1GB mark after a few years of useage.

NEVER delete e-mails You never know when they're useful at a later date...and they are useful!

-GL

 

[Elledan]

21.3 MB here... no .pst file, because I'm always using Mozilla for email