Right now I am compacting a fairly large (9GB) .pst file. The name of the file is "Personal Folders(1).pst". I can see that as part of the compaction process, a temporary file named "~Personal Folders(1).pst.tmp" has been created. This temporary file is 2056 KB is size.
From having worked a fair amount with databases, I am guessing that the compaction process uses this .pst.tmp file as a scratchpad for sorting as it defragments the .pst file. I suspect that if the max size of the .pst.tmp file can be increased, then the compaction process will go faster because it will have a bigger scratchpad to work with.
Is there a registry hack or a parameter change somewhere in Outlook that I can make so that the size of the .tmp.pst file can grow beyond 2056 KB?
