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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.
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.