No, I’m not going to talk about the way I think 2012 will go. Nothing that exciting. Instead, I’m going to talk about how I create a new Outlook Data file every year to contain e-items for that year. I did this originally because the PST file format had a 2GB limit. This limit has since been lifted, but I still practice this annual ritual of creating a new pst file for the year and cleaning out my inbox. I went and compressed each pst file and checked the sizes. Here they are:
Outlook Archive 2000.pst – 11,921 KB
Outlook Archive 2001.pst – 532,721 KB
Outlook Archive 2002.pst – 1,218,193 KB
Outlook Archive 2003.pst – 631,921 KB
Outlook Archive 2004.pst – 799,817 KB
Outlook Archive 2005.pst – 889,345 KB
Outlook Archive 2006.pst – 1,017,065 KB
Outlook Archive 2007.pst – 1,412,129 KB
Outlook Archive 2008.pst – 1,904,657 KB
Outlook Archive 2009.pst – 3,220,297 KB
Outlook Archive 2010.pst – 5,073,353 KB
Outlook Archive 2011.pst – 3,666,449 KB
I also have a 2010 Alerts folder… mostly automated e-mails I had on for a while, weighing in at 2,694,289.
How’s that for New Year Minutiae!