I know that Mercury is in retrograde, so I understand that my technology dependency is being tampered with. But today I received an error message when I tried to access an email in my inbox. I wasn’t even allowed to open it because my C:\Documents and Settings\JaneP\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst had reached its maximum size. Huh?
I noticed that my trash folder had over 45,000 messages in it. I began some heavy deleting. I got aggressive, dumping hundreds of messages at once. I became ruthless. Held down the shift key until I was removing months of old emails en masse.
Now, I just spent the last 30 minutes unsubscribing from over 80 organizations that habitually flood my inbox. Enough!
I enjoyed the purging. However, will you please let me know what incredible deals I’m missing from L.L. Bean and Groupon. YOU I trust!
Oh Jane. You know you can count on me to tell you the deals and what you ‘must’ buy to further compliment your wardrobe. Basically, that’s my mission!!
as long as you didn’t unsubscribe from my blog we’re all good!!
Good timing: I just got a Groupon deal for pole dancing lessons in Hartford. They clearly have me pegged right! I’m happy to send it your way. 🙂
Seriously, Congrats on the cleansing purge! Have you cleared your mailbox of catalogs yet with Catalog Choice? Really lightens the load and helps Mother Earth by saving paper.
Cheers, Jane!
Terry
That made me feel a little better because I had the EXACT same thing happen to my Google inbox today. I was relentless about deleting old e-mails. Who has time for this?
Hi Jane – Always good to do a clean out however I’m wondering if you have Archiving turned on in Outlook? That should prevent the problem from happening again. Archiving will move mail to an archive.pst file to keep your outlook.pst file a reasonable size. You can still access archived emails. Feel free to email me…
@Megan
I definitely need a lesson in this. Never learned that ability. Thanks for the offer.