No, let it finish. Even if it takes all night, or your pst file may get corrupted.
This comes up in outlook, and is similar to something on the exchange server end of things. You can delete items from the database, but the space is still reserved for the db until you officially tell it to let go of the space. That’s what compaction does. It sounds like you’ve got more than a gig to recover, and that could take a while.
Yeah, nicely said.
Well, if I’d have known it was going to take a long time, I’d have waited and done it tonight. I’m not receiving any email all this time, and it would just be predictable that today is the day my boss is trying to ask me something.