Message Sources

16. March 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , ,

Good evening, 

I have a Macbook Air from 2011 and have moved from Outlook to Mail as I had to continue duplicating the mail identity and Outlook was not working properly. However my 'Message Sources' folder continues growing to a point that I hardly have 1 GB of space left. Would anybody be able to advise if I can delete the 'Message Sources' folder without affecting my emails (or Word, Excel or any Microsoft programme that I continue using) given that I will not be using Outlook any longer in this computer and I will be using Mail?


Many thanks

Ignacio

Outlook filling up folders with nonsense(?) files

07. June 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , ,
My Outlook 2011 running under MacOS X 10.7 is constantly filling up the folders under Data Records -> Message Sources with what looks like the same message source files over and over again, at least once a minute. It keeps on as long as the Outlook application is running, day and night, and regardless of any real incoming e-mails.

One of the files is 7.5 MB and this one quickly fills up all available hard disk space. My Message Sources folder now contains a whopping 167GB...

Any ideas on how to stop this? Please help!

Best Regards,
Markus

How do I merge two of the same folders that are in the Main Identities, Data Records folder?

07. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: ,
So, I replace an user's mac and i moved his Folders, message sources, and messages, from the old main identity to the new one on his new mac; but i forgot the move the "message attachments" folder. Now he sees all his emails, but none of them have attachments.
So, it has been 2 days and he noticed this and has been archiving new emails with attachments.
My question is: When i move the folder "message attachments"(from his old mac that i have) into his main identity and replace the current one and rebuild it, it will get rid of the attachments for those 2 days.
How can i merge those two folders together so when i rebuilt it, it has the old attachments and the new emails with its attachments as well.
is this doable?

How do I merge two of the same folders that are in the Main Identities, Data Records folder?

07. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: ,
So, I replace an user's mac and i moved his Folders, message sources, and messages, from the old main identity to the new one on his new mac; but i forgot the move the "message attachments" folder. Now he sees all his emails, but none of them have attachments.
So, it has been 2 days and he noticed this and has been archiving new emails with attachments.
My question is: When i move the folder "message attachments"(from his old mac that i have) into his main identity and replace the current one and rebuild it, it will get rid of the attachments for those 2 days.
How can i merge those two folders together so when i rebuilt it, it has the old attachments and the new emails with its attachments as well.
is this doable?

How to reduce size of ‘message sources’ folder

22. October 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
I've seen some related posts but none seem to directly address why this happening or how to fix. In my Outlook for Mac 2011, my 'message sources' folder is a whopping 65 gig. It's killing my MAC Air. My email inbox only has 30 messages in it. I have dragged emails to an offline folder but, even then, the file wouldn't be more than a gigabyte.

So, can anyone please advise how to reduce this folder size?

Many thanks

2011 1.7 GHz i5 Macbook Air, 4 GB memory, OSX 10.8.2, MS Office for Mac ver 14.2.4

Outlook – why a space hog?

19. June 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , ,
Every day I get a warning message that yet another 1% of my hard drive is gone. Since I am not saving any big files like pictures or music on it, primarily only Office files, I couldn't figure out where the space was getting eaten up from.  I used WhatSize to investigate, and the hog turns out to be Outlook. 33.5 GB is for message sources.  What is "message sources"?  How can I keep this from multiplying so fast?  I only have 5% left on my hard drive.  The 2nd biggest thing on my hard drive is Application Support at 15.2 GB, so it seems that Outlook is clearly the hog.  How can I control this ravenous beast?

P.S. There's also 2.31 GB for Outlook 2004 identities.  When I got this computer, I transferred the user to here, and my old computer had Outlook 2004.  Can I get rid of that?