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Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed?

Message-ID	<NHU2weK3ZGFfFwv3@255soft.uk> (permalink)
Date	2020-07-19 16:27 +0100
From	"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general
Subject	Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed?
References	<zO5pixwEMxEfFwxL@255soft.uk> <MPG.397e539ba39271fd9898a0@news.eternal-september.org>
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 13:57:35, Philip Herlihy 
<thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote:
>In article <zO5pixwEMxEfFwxL@255soft.uk>, G6JPG@255soft.uk says...
>>
>> There's a column "Size" in the list of messages.
>>
>> When I remove attachments from a message, the size shown does not drop -
>> even if the attachment was the bulk of the message. This seems to be
>> true, even if I quit and restart Outlook, emptying the bin as I do so.
>>
>> In other email clients I've used, the shown size _does_ drop when I
>> remove attachments. So what gives?
>>
>> 1. Are the full emails - i. e. including the attachments - still being
>> kept somewhere? If so, how do you get at them?
>> 2. If the answer to 1. is "yes they are but you can't", what's the point
>> of the ability to "remove" attachments?
>
>If I want to ditch attachments but keep the message, I remove 
>attachments, then copy the
>message to another folder.  The copied version has the reduced size as 
>expected.  I can then
>delete the original.
>
It's a 141KB message, that contained a 99K attachment. I deleted the 
attachment. Still shows as 141KB in the inbox; interestingly, it still 
shows a paperclip in the list of emails, though when I now look at the 
email, I can't see the attachment.

I tried dragging it to another "folder", so a move rather than a copy, 
so I dragged it back. I then moved it (Ctrl-drag, I think). There is now 
a copy in that folder, showing no paperclip. Good - but it shows as 24 
MB! (The original in the inbox still shows as 141 KB, paperclip, no 
attachment visible.) I am able to delete the 24M one (it's in trash).

Closing and re-opening Outlook: gone from Trash, still in Inbox at 
141KB, paperclip, attachment not visible.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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