.pst file nearly 2Gb

[dozza]

Outlook is working quite slowly nowadays - takes a long time to open and regularly crashes - and I feel this may be due to the size of the .pst file I've built up over the years.

Nothing I do ever seems to reduce the size of the file. I delete documents and attachments both sent and received and the file just grows and grows.

What, if anything, can I do about it?

[bolus14]

The problem with pst files is even after deleting old email, etc. they never get rid of the space they previously took up. Here's a link that will tell you how to compact the file; http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;289987

This will basically delete all the "dead" space i nthe file.