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by dhegner

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I'm running a Windows 2000 version of Exchange. I'm in the process of converting to 2003 so I've been doing some house keeping to get rid of unneeded mail before the conversion. I've noticed that after eliminating a little over 2GB of mail, the directory reported size of the Priv1.edb and Priv1.stm have not changed, in fact Priv1.edb has grown a little.

The nightly maintenance routing is running successfully. Event log reports id 1221-ran successfully but just 22MB of free space. I actually added all the mailbox sizes reported in Exchange server manager and the 2GB reduction is accounted for.

Now I'm going to run an offline defrag, that's a given. I was just wondering if any-one else has seen this problem. Why doesn't Exchange report the correct amount of free space?

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by sparkle_126

I dont think that it is an exchange issue, but a windows issue. Let me explain. When we were migrating our email to the exchange server, i archived users email to the last few months to put on the server. But, when i went to check the size of the pst file after considerable archiving, windows reported the file as being the same size as prior. It is only when i compacted the pst file, did i then see the true size. This happened on XP and 2000 machines. Not an answer, i know, but i hope that i might have steered you in the right direction.
Good luck.

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