Hello Our company has a 9Gb Priv1.stm file and a 4.5Gb Prev1.edb file. A user tried to email a 1Gb file which i have now removed from the sent items in their mailbox and the inbox of the other users mailbox. Will this email have caused the Prev1 files to be larger? If so would using the eseutil command reduce these file sizes to a more reasonable level? Since the email was sent the backup has required an additional tape so this is why i am thinking the email is still affecting the system. Finally, if using eseutil will help, how do i use it?! It says it is an offline defrag so do i need to make sure all the users are off the network before i do it? I have also read that it takes a long time. Are we talking hours, half a day, a full day? Thanks for your help Gareth Jones
Hi, This mail could have caused the database to increase by 1Gb. Normally there should be no need to defrag the database just to recover 1 Gb, but if you must here is the procedure: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;192185 Before you start look for event 1221 in the application log. This event will tell you how much space can be regained by running eseutil. Leif wrote in message news:1141470544.490736.179030@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Hello > > Our company has a 9Gb Priv1.stm file and a 4.5Gb Prev1.edb file. A user > tried to email a 1Gb file which i have now removed from the sent items > in their mailbox and the inbox of the other users mailbox. Will this > email have caused the Prev1 files to be larger? > > If so would using the eseutil command reduce these file sizes to a more > reasonable level? Since the email was sent the backup has required an > additional tape so this is why i am thinking the email is still > affecting the system. > > Finally, if using eseutil will help, how do i use it?! It says it is an > offline defrag so do i need to make sure all the users are off the > network before i do it? I have also read that it takes a long time. Are > we talking hours, half a day, a full day? > > Thanks for your help > Gareth Jones >
