We have a mail server running Windows 2003 Ent (64bit). Exchange 2007 (64bit) installed on G: drive (400GB). The space on G: drive is getting small. We asked all users to clean their mailbox. After that, the mail database is still same as before (170GB). We are going to do eseutil/d mailbox database offline. but G: drive free space (58GB) is small to run. Microsoft suggests it has 110% free space to run the eseutil/d. I find that there is fold “local copies” keep the mailbox database copy (170GB). Can we temp move the “local copies” folder to external disk, then free space to run eseutil/d, when eseutil/d finish, move the “local copies” folder back to g: drive? Is any suggestion? I appreciate for help!!! George Wang

1. where are you actual .edb files stored? 2. this folder local copies? is this some old data or what is this mailbox database copy? u just copied the actual db and pasted here in the folder? 3. find out how much white space is avaialable on the database, check for event 1221 in the eventlog , this should give u the info. post back with answers.-join("74686979616775313440686F746D61696C2E636F6D"-split"(?<=\G.{2})",21|%{[char][int]"0x$_"}) http://www.myExchangeWorld.com This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hmm I suspect that you are using LCR and you have a local replica copy. If you still want this copy I wouldnt mess with it. Map a drive to a file server say z: Then when you run eseutil point the temporary location to z: The T switch points it to another location Z: drive. Note there is no space in between them. What happens is when you run the command the temporary new defragged DB will be on Z: when it finishes it will automatically replace your existing DB in the original location. You don't need to do anything manual. C:\>eseutil /d /ispriv /tz:\Sample.edb How to defragment with the Eseutil utility (Eseutil.exe) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192185James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

May I use external disk (like USB disk) as temp local drive to connect exchange server? I appreciat for your help! Thank George Wang

James is on point with the /T option While a USB drive MAY work if its NTFS formatted most USB drives are pretty slow, but if you can get a fast NTFS USB formatted drive running without issue, it may work faster then pushing the data across the wire. Troy Werelius www.Lucid8.com

Troy, Thanks for help! George Wang

Before doing this ( And I would suggest you move maiboxes to a new server instead), you need to look at the events 1221 in the app log to see how much space you will reclaim as was mentioned before. That 110% number refers to 110% of the actual store size, not the size on disk.