On 10/14/10 12:00 PM, "Don Montalvo" <
email@hidden> wrote:
>I confirmed that attachments are indeed stored in a monolithic database.
>
>I deleted that 5M message (completely). Then I checked the Database file,
>it was the same size.
>
>I rebuilt the Database (OPTION-open Outlook 2011) and that brought the
>Database file back to it's original 29M size.
>
>~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main
>Identity/Database
>
>Microsoft. Fail. Again.
>
>No wonder many of us were kept out of the Outlook 2011 Beta...we would
>have caught this. What a farce.
>
>We're facing yet another monolithic database in Outlook 2011. As
>attachments come in, watch it grow (and eventually implode).
>
>Not. Happy.
>
>Don
>
>
>On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Don Montalvo wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I finally got a chance to dig into the new "flat file" structure
>>used by Outlook 2011.
>>
>> I see individual files in these two directories:
>>
>> ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/Office\ 2011\ Identities/Main\
>>Identity/Data\ Records/Message\ Sources/
>>
>> ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/Office\ 2011\ Identities/Main\
>>Identity/Data\ Records/Messages/
>>
>> ...much to my surprise I also found a Database file that was 29M (used
>>a temporary account for testing so it was small):
>>
>> ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main
>>Identity/Database
>>
>> ...well, I decided to send myself a 5M attachment. Much to my dismay,
>>the database balooned up to 34M.
>>
>> Very scary.....
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don
>
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