Microsoft KB Archive/151495

= XADM: Priv.edb not Smaller After Running Edbutil /D =

Article ID: 151495

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q151495



SUMMARY
Edbutil /D performs off-line compaction of the Private Information Store. You might notice that the size of the Priv.edb file does not decrease after you run Edbutil when you have just deleted a large number of users using the Microsoft Exchange Administrator program.



MORE INFORMATION
After a user is deleted, a background cleanup thread marks the objects owned by that user as deleted. The disk space can only be recovered by Edbutil after this process is complete and if a large number of users are deleted, it will take a while.

The background cleanup thread logs entries in the Windows NT Application Event log if the "Background Cleanup" diagnostic logging option in the Private Information Store is set to Medium.

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