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OneDrive - Can't delete .pst file
Hello @everybody I've got a problem with a user in our domain. He safed some private files in his OneDrive and he also exported an outlook .pst file. The problem I have right now is that some...
- The size is growing because every time outlook touches the file it counts as a change and it’s resyncing another copy every single time it’s opened and closed etc. so this space is due to the version history copies.
Best I can guess you are not closing out of the outlook process when removing the pst from the OneDrive location. I would suggest removing the pst from outlook profile. And closing outlook. Wait for sync then remove the file.
You should also consider blocking .pst from syncing to avoid future issues.
how to do that Ricardo Viana
- Thanks, i will do that asap.
- Once you remove the pst from outlook you need to go into documents / outlook files or whoever the file was on the computer and delete the file there. This will remove it / sync the removal from the onedrive.
