Outlook Data file size doesn't change

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cbtsam

I carry my Outlook from office to home via protable hard drive, copying the
Data file from C:>Documents and Settings>Onwer>Local Settings>Application
Data>Microsoft from the desktop machine to the portable drive, and back to
the other machine, etc. For some time now, the size of the Data file has
remained constant at 47,323,397 bytes, and some data has been lost.

How can I tell Outlook to let the size of this data file grow?
 
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Brian Tillman

cbtsam said:
I carry my Outlook from office to home via protable hard drive,
copying the Data file from C:>Documents and Settings>Onwer>Local
Settings>Application Data>Microsoft from the desktop machine to the
portable drive, and back to the other machine, etc. For some time
now, the size of the Data file has remained constant at 47,323,397
bytes, and some data has been lost.

How can I tell Outlook to let the size of this data file grow?
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You don't need to tell Outlook anything. If Outlook needs more space, it
will ask the operating system to allocate more. If it doesn't need it, it
won't. The file's unchanging size is NOT the reason you appear to be losing
data. The real reason can be one of several but you don't typify the
problem in enough detail to decide. For example, you don't even state the
version(s) of Outlook you're using.
 
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cbtsam

Regrets. Outlook 2000; Windows XP Home. For several months, the file size
routinely grew; then it stopped. Hope this helps you help me.
 
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Brian Tillman

cbtsam said:
Regrets. Outlook 2000; Windows XP Home. For several months, the
file size routinely grew; then it stopped.
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If your PST stopped growing and it was still less that about 1.8 GB, then it
didn't grow because it didn't NEED to grow. If you want to see it start
growning again as mail comes in, compact it a couple of times, then observe.
 
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cbtsam

I don'[t use Outlook for email. Mainly, I add contact and journal items:
about 25 journal items weekly, and about four contacts weekly. Still, no
change in the file size over six months. However, if I add a folder - say, a
new contact folder, with on contact item in it, then the file grows. My fear
is that journal items, which record my history of conversations with my
contacts, are being lost.

I want to emphasize that, before about six months ago, the file did grow
steadily, day by day. Why do you suppose it stopped doing that?
 
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Brian Tillman

cbtsam said:
I don'[t use Outlook for email.
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That's not really the important point in my post, though. It applies to
PSTs whatever the purpose.
Mainly, I add contact and journal
items: about 25 journal items weekly, and about four contacts weekly.
Still, no change in the file size over six months. However, if I add
a folder - say, a new contact folder, with on contact item in it,
then the file grows. My fear is that journal items, which record my
history of conversations with my contacts, are being lost.
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So go back to the earlier items and see if they are still there. If so,
your fears are groundless.
I want to emphasize that, before about six months ago, the file did
grow steadily, day by day. Why do you suppose it stopped doing that?
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I don't know. I just checked my Journal folder and it contains items that
are dated back to September of 2003.
 
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