[dba-Tech] strip attachments to stored email.

Kathryn,

Thanks for that but I already have about 10,000 or so emails in my pst.  I
can't see myself doing what you suggest to 10,000 emails anytime in the next
century.

I am looking for a utility (I'll write my own if necessary) that will allow
me to strip off the attachments to all emails already in my pst, preferably
only those before a certain date (already x days / months old).

It seems like a reasonable thing to do so I thought someone might already
know of one.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Kathryn
Bassett
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:08 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] strip attachments to stored email.


I just open the message and single click on the attachment and hit delete.
Then when you close the message, it asks if you want to save the changes,
and say yes. BTW, I usually also choose Edit > Edit Message, then Format >
Plain Text, as well. That way the message is plain text which also takes
less room (not to mention, usually easier to read). I hate it when I get
mail that was generated with Word, as I can't change it to plain text. I
know, you didn't ask that, but since you want to save room, saving as plain
text will help as well.

--
Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
kathryn at bassett.net
http://bassett.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby
> Sent: 16 Nov 2003 1:25:PM
> To: DBA - Tech
> Subject: [dba-Tech] strip attachments to stored email.
>
>
> Does anyone have a utility that can strip attachments to email that is
> stored in the outlook pst?  I keep all my client emails, both sent and
> received ofr historical and "proof" purposes.  I regularly attach zipped
> databases and receive zipped BEs as well.  As a result my pst is
approaching
> 1gb right now, waaaay to big.
>
> John W. Colby
>
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