Well, I decided to be un-sentimental about old email. Most of it is meaningless frap, and I wasn’t going to read through all of it to find the one or two messages that aren’t meaningless frap.
My Outlook file was taking up 1.7 Gigs. And it was a biggie that was showing up as fragmented and unfixable when I did that. So I went in and deleted everything more than a year old, and all messages that had big attachments, and cut it down some, but it’s still 1.4. Is there some big file of autoarchived stuff sitting out on my computer somewhere that could be deleted?
As for other files... I went through a few of my picture folders and deleted some, but I could do more of that. Those are on my storage disk though, and there’s plenty of room on that. My trouble has been finding what I’m looking for in thousands of pictures of horses.
Pinging you to the Outlook question above too... I think this is one of your peeves :~)
You probably need to compact your Outlook PST file. It’s been awhile since I used Outlook extensively, but this seems about right...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289987
You’d want to do the part marked “How to Manually Start PST Compaction.”
Did you check for backups of sent mails? Sometimes those can get out of hand.