Using MS Outlook 2003

I would like to be able to export the information about folder sizes that are received when you do "Properties" - "Folder Sizes..." against particular outlook folder.

The output as it stands cannot be cut & pasted, and when you have many subfolders it is very hard to use.

Ideally I would like to be able to export to excel so I can sort on the "Total Size" column & use this to remove any 0KB folders (i.e. ones I dont use anymore)

Any ideas?
Are you talking about Mail folders or what?  Yes - mail folders in Outlook.

For example I right click on "Personal Folders" inb the folder list pane in outlook and select "Properties for Personal Folders ... ". Then I click on the "Folder Size ... " button and it gives me a list of all the subfolders under "Personal Folders" and their size in KB. Its the data in this report that I want to esport to excel, word, txt ... anything I can manipulateI see no way to do that.  I suspect the capability was not programmed into Outlook because it's a rather unlikely user requirement.  Why do you want to do that?The reason I want to do it is that I now have hundreds of subfolders in my oultook "Personal Folders". For years I have been archiving off my Personal Folders PST to an offline PST every 3 months (to keep the size down), but have always mantained the same folder structure.

Now I have lots of folders that I have not used for a while and so they are empty in my current PST and in my last couple of archives - so I want to delete them to tidy up my folder structure.

I figured the simplest way to do that (rather than goign in to each folder & seeign if it is empty) was to run a folder size report & filter on all the 0KB folders to delete them


Maybe there is an alternative appraoch?You might try using Alt/Print Screen to get a screen print of the Properties panel but my system only displays 10 LINES at a time, so that might not be helpful.

Other than that, I think you'll just have to go down through the folders, selecting them one at time to view the contents.  The ones that are emply will QUICKLY be obvious.  When you find ones you want to delete, you can either right click on them and select Delete or use the Delete key.Here YA Go...

A Freebie.

patio.  8-)tombrown, if you try the utility patio mentioned, please let us know whether it worked.  I think it may not because Outlook's folders are internal to Outlook; they do not appear in Windows Explorer the way regular folders do.Thanks for the freebie.

I would need to jump through a few hoops with my IT support to allow me to install it, and looking at the web page it does seem to be for explorer folders rather than outlook mail folders - so I'm not sure.

Patio - can you clarify whetehr this will ALSO work for mail folders inside Outlook?Sorry i don't, haven't and PROBABLY never will use Outlook...i'm a TBird guy.

I'd suggest sending the IT guy to her site...he might be impressed with some of her free tools. She's been around since the DOS days and i believe she also wrote for PCMag or Window's mag at one time.

patio.   8-)