Take the 2-minute tour ×  Our company is running Exchange 2003
on Server 2003. Our primary exchange store file (priv1.edb)
keeps growing and is now at over 45GB. If I add up the size of
the mailboxes in that store I get less than 16GB. I ran an
offline defrag but didn't regain even a single KB from the .edb
file (the .stm file shrank from 8GB to 2GB). I've also looked up
the size of the Recoverable Items using Performance and it seems
insignificant (not sure if the display is in bytes or KB, either
way it would not account for the discrepancy). How do I find out
what is taking up all this space, and more importantly, how do I
remove it?  share|improve this question  9 Answers 9  Are you
getting good online backups? My guess is that you're not, and as
a result you're seeing delete items piling up instead of being
cleaned up. That would be consistent with the lack of any
decrease in size that you saw with the offline defragmentation.
You can force deleted item retention to delete items even if the
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