Slow Outlook

[blue143]

I'm working in a company of about 5 people. Their Outlook is really slow and crashes all the time. Each person has about 10,000 emails (many with large attachments) in both their inbox and sent items. Could this be part of the problem?

Thanks!

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Not "could", IS.. get rid of the "sent items", delete the old email that is no longer applicable and then compact the rest !!

10,000 email?? Its a wonder they even have hard-drive space left !!

Murray

 

[blue143]

Thanks. I figured that was the problem. I mean, its pretty obvious! I've tried to tell them this but without success. Do you know what the maximum number of emails should be roughly? If I can back up my advice with facts they might believe me!

 

[joegz]

It is not the number of e-mail but the size of the folder that should be the concern and then where the folder is located.

2 GB is the limit for a personal folder. If the file is stored on a network drive you could have problems much sooner than this limit.

Outlook can handle multiple personal folders much better than storing all the data in one huge personal folder. joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[cdogg]

It is usually a good rule of thumb to have less than 100 items or less than 20 MB in the "active" inbox folder. Even if you use PST's, it's still best to keep the inbox folder size down as much as possible. Move all other emails into a separate folder or PST.

Like joegz said, you don't want to exceed 2 GB on any PST (probably best not to go much over 1 GB if possible). ~cdogg

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