Re: MAPI cache dat file size

Thanks for the confirmation.

On 16/11/2015 6:25 PM, Brian Turnbow wrote:
> HI
>
> You can close OL and delete the cache file with no problems.
> The connector will recreate it when it starts.
> OL should be much faster afterwards as well.
>
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CommuniGate Pro Discussions [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shaun Gamble
> Sent: lunedì 16 novembre 2015 03:45
> To: CommuniGate Pro Discussions
> Subject: MAPI cache dat file size
>
> So one of my managers (running latest MAPI with Outlook 2013 on 64 bit
> Windows 7) had a 6GB dat file in his profile. It corrupted. I restored
> the dat file prior to the corruption and it is working fine again.
> However, the dilemma is the cache file shouldn't be this big,
> theoretically. He had a large number of emails, which he has since
> archived off to multiple PST files. His account is reporting only about
> 100MB in size now.
>
> If this was a PST file, I would run Outlook's compression on it. This
> does not seem to be possible. So how do we compress the cache file? I
> know I can delete the profile but I really don't want to go through
> that. Any ideas? If I simply delete the cache dat file, will it be
> recreated once Outlook is started, as opposed to deleting the whole
> profile and having to reconfigure the profile again?
>
> TIA.
>

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