Outlook will compact itself in the background while it is open. If you just
deleted a number of items, this behavior is normal.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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| After cleaning out my Outlook 2002 (not Express) message
| folders, the folder containing the remaining messages was
| copied to a backup. Before closing the Explorer window,
| I noticed that this file (Outlook.pst) was slowly
| shrinking by about 16K every 2-3 seconds. This only
| occurs while Outlook is open. Should this be a concern
| or is Outlook just slowly catching up to all of the
| messages that were cleaned out?