I have this strange issue. What happened is that I had 50Mb in my email. I cleared it all out into a PST using Outlook 2007 SP1. I have a 50 PST. I check the mail server and it shows I have 25Mb on the server. This is odd. I load up a fresh profile on a new XP machine using Outlook 2003 SP3. I open my mailbox and see 25Mb. I clear it out into a 2nd 25Mb PST. I still see 4Mb stuck in the mail server! Now multiply this by 100 people! I may have a user that has 80Mb in their inbox but the server sees 195Mb. Now a bit of a backgrounder. A sys admin in the past may have deleted the STM file due to a corruption. Be that as it may, how do I square things off? How do I 'sync' the boxes? eg. in Outlook 2007 I can see my LOCAL DATA SIZE is ZERO. But my SERVER DATA SIZE is 4.5Mb.
That's 400MB. Not very much, really. I don't know why you're doing what you're doing or how you have Outlook configured so I can't comment on why you're seeing what you're seeing. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . wrote in message news:cb0e4b3a-e611-41e9-bff3-f516b6e034f7@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... >I have this strange issue. > > What happened is that I had 50Mb in my email. > > I cleared it all out into a PST using Outlook 2007 SP1. I have a 50 > PST. > > I check the mail server and it shows I have 25Mb on the server. This > is odd. > > I load up a fresh profile on a new XP machine using Outlook 2003 SP3. > > I open my mailbox and see 25Mb. I clear it out into a 2nd 25Mb PST. > > I still see 4Mb stuck in the mail server! > > Now multiply this by 100 people! > > I may have a user that has 80Mb in their inbox but the server sees > 195Mb. > > Now a bit of a backgrounder. A sys admin in the past may have deleted > the STM file due to a corruption. > > Be that as it may, how do I square things off? > > How do I 'sync' the boxes? > > eg. in Outlook 2007 I can see my LOCAL DATA SIZE is ZERO. > > But my SERVER DATA SIZE is 4.5Mb.
as an example i might have a user who has a 100Mb OST but the server sees a 200Mb OST i use non cached mode for outlook the emails i can see the heading but when i click the body it says it can't open it and i can't delete it either
Explain what you mean by "server sees a 200Mb OST" (and I think you mean MB unless you're counting in bits, in which case 200Mb is really small!). Exchange Server doesn't "see" an OST, it's managed by Outlook. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . wrote in message news:b6c029ae-7148-4cc2-8a45-eeb46e4dbdf6@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... > as an example i might have a user who has a 100Mb OST but the server > sees a 200Mb OST > > i use non cached mode for outlook > > the emails i can see the heading but when i click the body it says it > can't open it and i can't delete it either >
