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My employer's going to be increasing my mailbox quota from 150MB to 5GB as part of an exchange server upgrade. Since my PST is 3.5GB in size I believe this means if I wanted I could store all of my email on the server instead of using local disk apace for it.
I'm not sure if doing so is a good idea though. The obvious gotcha is that if the exchange server is down I won't be able to look for messages I sent in 2005;  but I'm not sure what else I should be thinking about but am not.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: I'm not sure if doing so is a good idea though. The obvious gotcha is that if the exchange server is down I won't be able to look for messages I sent in 2005; but I'm not sure what else I should be thinking about but am not.
Would you still have (local) backups of the mail?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Unless i delete it I'll still have a copy as of when I switched it over on my network share; but freeing diskspace to minimize the cheapskatedness of whoever picks out standard laptops is one of the features I'm looking forward to. Having to manage space on undersized drives might waste $100-300 of my time a year but that wastage isn't billed against corporate IT so it's not their problem.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Outlook can keep a copy of your emails in your .OST file so that when you are offline you would still have them.
However, 3.5 Gigs of emails means you need to do some cleanup. Get friendly with the delete button. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Are you offering to pay me to go through tens of thousands of messages to sort out the 1% I might need to refer to at some point in the future?
PS I'll also need to borrow your time machine so I can ask my future self which things I thought I'd never need to care about will be asked about in the next few years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: Are you offering to pay me to go through tens
No, OCD is now covered by Obamacare.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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But I have CDO.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: I have CDO
Compulsive Disorder Obsession?
I suspect I have that as well... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Not quite. Compulsive Disorder Obsessive. Just like OCD except that it's in Alphabetical Order The Way It's Supposed To Be!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Are you offering to pay me to go through tens of thousands of messages to sort out the 1% I might need to refer to at some point in the future?
Cheaper than paying you to search through umpty-zillion un-organised e-mails God only knows how many times, to find details that would be hard to find even if the e-mails were organised.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't use exchange server - I use Outlook and local files.
But...I archive a copy of my PST file every three months, and then delete everything older than four months before compacting it. That way, I can still get at all my old stuff, and Outlook doesn't slow down as the file grows. Works for me, but then I'm a bit paranoid about backups!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Outlook still makes a local copy in the form of as .ost file, so you should be able to search offline.
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You're forgetting about being able to take that data with you should you ever leave. I have a sweat gig worked out that has paid off having old emails (nothing like getting paid to attach a PST file, find an email from a year prior and send it off).
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I strongly suspect what you're suggesting would be grounds for firing if I was caught. (Moving company proprietary information onto a non company computer.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yea, there was no agreement of that nature in place. When I left, I just tossed the pst file on a thumb drive.
Fast forward a month and my old boss is asking for help with problems that where solved, just the code was never promoted....So here are the instructions for that again as I don’t remember any more.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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S Douglas wrote: I have a sweat gig
You work in a sweat-shop?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: You work in a sweat-shop
Freudian slip, but it sure did feel like it at the time, lots of pressure...
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I would read up on OST file if you use outlook as your mail client.
Effectively it does both. Stores them on your disk as well as the server.
advantage is that you have access to them if your exchange server is offline. But you can't send when you lose connection to the server either
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Quote: advantage is that you have access to them if your exchange server is offline.
In ur case if did the mail database was corrupt and couldn't be repaired. Having the OST files on the clients PC was a great help, we are now moving to Office 365 which should be an interesting exercise, I been been working on EWS and Azure.
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Dan Neely wrote: The obvious gotcha is that if the exchange server is down I won't be able to look for messages I sent in 2005; but I'm not sure what else I should be thinking about but am not.
Is Outlook 20xx not automatically set to cache mode at your company?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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On my blog[^]
Apologies for making this a link to my blog, but there are 3 screenshots from the site that obviously can't go here.
Marc
modified 3-Oct-13 13:33pm.
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As far as the P.O. Box thing goes, I guess that makes you homeless. Come to think of it, since this is a government agency, that would probably up your priority.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Fail3
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Sounds like bad design. Is there another field for residential address?
For example: when registering to vote here you cannot use a P.O. Box as your registration address. However, you can use it is a mailing address for mail correspondence. Now, of course when determining who you are, it should use your place of residence and not your mailing address. But not allowing P.O. Box for mailing is just bad design.
I wonder what would happen if you entered an APO or FPO if you were overseas for military service.
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Why would they care if you use a PO Box?
I guess it makes it difficult to 'collect' you in the night if they don't know where you live.
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