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[David Roth]

Thanks for the reply and the link, Nasir.

What makes this such a mystery, is that while the Windows 7 workstation is
being used daily, the Outlook 2012 application is not being launched or
used at all. But somehow something is writing to several of the PST legacy
files each day the PC is on. This might mean that independent of bringing
up the Outlook 2012 client itself, there may be some process(es) from
perhaps Office or when Outlook was installed that runs and does it's house
cleaning/indexing routine. This is causing GBs of data to be backup each
day that should be sitting their untouched. I'd like to be able to stop
this process from running if Outlook isn't being used. Or I could remove
the Outlook 2012 application, but that seems like an odd thing to have to
do, because if access was needed to the legacy PST files, it would have to
be re-installed and then removed when finished.

I don't know enough about Windows 7 to know if I can do a Linux-type 'ps'
command and check logs that would have any meaning for me.

David Roth

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Nasir Zubair <nasir81 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> This should clarify it:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269520
>
> Every time you open a pst file and navigate it in anyway, it writes back
> metadata to the pst file.
>
> HTH
>
> Nasir
> On May 29, 2012 7:33 PM, "David Roth" <davidalanroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply, David.
>>
>> No, Lync isn't being used.
>>
>> I guess the next step would be to get a list of all the processes and try
>> to identify their purpose. Auto-archive in Outlook has been off through
>> this whole mystery too.
>>
>> David Roth
>>
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:50 PM, David Krings <ramons at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/26/2012 8:30 PM, David Roth wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not an Outlook user and don't use Windows much. If Outlook isn't
>>>> being
>>>> launched on this PC, what could be causing this legacy Outlook files to
>>>> be
>>>> written too? Does Outlook or part of a Microsoft Office do any sort of
>>>> background housing cleaning/re-indexing of Outlook files/folders? If
>>>> so, is
>>>> there a way to stop this process from being scheduled? Thanks in
>>>> advance!
>>>>
>>>> David Roth
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is Lync running? That will write archived PM chats to the pst file.
>>>
>>> David K
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