I use Outlook (came with my iPaq) and I’m not the cleaning kind. Recently I checked the size of my PST file, and saw that its size is over 800MBytes. Since the disk it’s on also houses my “internet cache”, this disk is … well … let’s say fragmented. I think there is no file on that disk that resides in one contiguous part.<\/p>\n
Since the recent disk-switch<\/a>, I have a partition with over 30GByte of diskspace, so I closed Outlook, moved the PST file to the other disk (from a SCSI-Wide disk to a IDE Ultra\/100 disk) and started defrag to be able to copy the PST file back, but less fragmented.<\/p>\n So I thought, what would happen if I start Outlook now? Will it ask for the new location of the PST file? To my surprise it did. After pointing to it, Outlook gives a message about not being able to open “…blabla personal folder bla bla…” and then quits. When I started Outlook again, everything was there, as expected. With one exception: there was no rattling of the disk, and the startup is almost instantly. Wow. Accessing a file of over 800MBytes, and still maintaining an “instant-on” feeling really impressed me. I know Outlook isn’t the best tool around (I must use it to be able to synchronize the iPaq), but this kind of performance is superb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I use Outlook (came with my iPaq) and I’m not the cleaning kind. Recently I checked the size of my PST file, and saw that its size is over 800MBytes. Since the disk it’s on also houses my “internet cache”, this disk is … well … let’s say fragmented. I think there is no file […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software","category-45-id","category-27-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}