We were beginning to run low on storage space(7G of space available) so I had our users go through and delete/archive old emails and images earlier in the week.
I’ve since tried compacting databases and the disk, and I am getting a message saying that the compacts ran successfully with no errors. However when I go back into Domino Admin
the mail file size of the users who have deleted their old emails and who’s mailfiles I have just compacted, are still their original sizes. They have not gotten smaller even though I compacted them What’s more, Domino Admin still shows that there is only 7 G of space free, even though I know that that over 2 gig of space has been reclaimed by users deleting/archiving mail this week.
Any ideas? Why is Domino Admin not reflecting these current disk and mailfile size changes? Is their a view or something that needs to be updated?
Subject: RE: Mail files compacted, disk space remains the same
No. The users mentioned that they deleted old emails and images in their trash as well. I thought of asking them that too.
I am not sure what you mean if the users have any free space in those databases. They pretty much have as much space as they need, since we do not have quotas for each users mailfile.
Subject: RE: Mail files compacted, disk space remains the same
There is more than one style of compaction. One (in-place) merely does the equivalent of “consolidate white space”, leaving the file size alone – it makes new document writes really efficient, but at the cost of disk space. You need to remove the white space in order to reduce the file size.
Subject: RE: Mail files compacted, disk space remains the same
And to check for free space in the database file, have a look at the database properties, 2nd tab. Click on “% used” and you will get an idea how much of the current file size is really taken up by data, and how much is unused white spaced, that could be recovered through compaction with file size reduction (as laid out by Stan).