PSTCompress 4  is now available for download.  In testing it has reduced PST files by up to 95%.

The Trial version is limited to 5 PST files and 3 uses.  A use is defined as processing 1 PST file, 1 time.  The Analyze feature of the product does not have any use limitations and will show the savings you can expect on any PST file. You may request a trial extension key from your sales representative to increase this number or remove the limitation.

Important - Upgrading from PSTCompress™ 2 and PSTCompress 3!

PSTCompress 4 will require a new license key.  If you are under support this key will be provided free of change.  After installing PSTCompress 4 please e-mail us the User Id in the Tools/Register menu.

Change History

Version 4.0.15 – Fixed problems in Spanish and Turkish resource files that would cause the compact option of PSTCompress to not work properly with the Spanish and Turkish versions of Outlook. Updated help file to reflect changes in registration.

Version 4.0.14 – Made registration and purchasing easier to use. Added a purchase menu item and a purchase button on the product Splash Screen. Fixed a problem in the scheduler that in some cases caused the program to end after 10 minutes if no time limit was specified. Made the help file available from command line interface. Fixed problem on 64 bit Windows 7 with missing msstdfmt.dll.

Version 4.0.13 – Corrected some spelling errors and typos in the help file.

Version 4.0.12 – Rebranded for sale by Obsidian Tower Software. Added additional debugging for fixing html links  Fixed up problem with fixing HTML links where string matches were not found when they should have been.

Version 4.0.11 – Released - Fixed problems in the scheduler that caused the next run date to be displayed incorrectly in some instances.  Fixed scheduler problem in monthly and yearly schedules where the schedule was not always executed.  Fixed problem in replace path strings that caused an error to be thrown.

Version 4.0.10 – Beta 2. Added ability to change the path on stripped attachment links. This is to support moving the location of the attachments after the attachments have been stripped.  Fixed some problems with the help file links not working correctly.  Added browse to virtual directory text box in options.  Fixed problem with hang if the report directory is defined and does not exist. Now PSTCompress will create the report directory if it is not found.

Version 4.0.9 – Beta 1.

Version 3.0.27 – fixed hang problem in install when trying to delete PSTCompress 2 service in some environments. Fixed problem where some PST files over 2Gb are not detected in Find function.

Version 3.0.26 – fixed problem where error message would come up if the program started to traverse a folder with contacts in it.  The program now checks if the folder contains contacts before opening it.  Added snapshot log option to create an abbreviated log file that is deleted for each new PST file processed.  Added logic to reinitialize MAPI if a MAPI error occurs when opening a PST file.  Added Brazilian Portugeuse as a supported language.

Version 3.0.25 – fixed problem in Analyze mode where an error in opening a PST file such as a password protected PST file would cause an error in all subsequent PST files.  This was not a problem for normal processing.

Version 3.0.24 –  fixed MAPI problem with Vista when processing a group of PST files for a second time without restarting the program.  Added feature to type in search path or browse for search.  Added display of total/selected PST files at bottom of main window.  Fixed sorting with files over 1 GB on main window.  Fixed runtime error and crash when creating a schedule with an invalid/missing user password in settings.  Eliminated unnecessary refresh of the main window in several instances.  Fixed intermittent scheduling problem where schedule job would be canceled immediately after running.

Version 3.0.23 – Release Candidate 2 – added feature to be able to highlight PST files and select them using the standard Windows control-click and shift-click keys.  Improved UI performance when there are more that 500 PST files.  Improved performance on Find when adding more that 100 PST file both in UI and in command line.  Improved performance on Delete when deleting more than 20 files.  Enabled support for Non-English Outlook, which had been disabled in the prior versions of PSTCompress 3.  Fixed scheduling problem where specifying the number of hours to run caused the program to end after a few seconds rather that the specified time  Fixed problem where main display not updated during scheduled job.  Changed directory structure for common attachment files to a more logical location as follows:

Version 3.0.22 – Release Candidate 1 – added feature to select PST files by size.  Fixed problem with HTML links when the file specification is not a share and contains a drive letter.  Added support so PSTCompress can run on Vista with normal user and UAC.  Fixed problem with HTML text when file specification is a file specification rather than a virtual directory.  Fixed resource leak in Find code.  Change the registration to auto detect whether the key us a trial key or a permanent key.  Fixed memory leak in temporary directory code.

Version 3.0.21 – Beta 2 – fixed error in release note change history.  Fixed problem where attachments were not deleted of only Delete Attachments was checked in Settings and not the Zip Attachments or Store Attachments as well.

Version 3.0.20 – Beta 2 – added ability to delete attachments based on age.  Added number of stripped attachments and number of deleted attachments to the detail csv report (PSTCompress_*_Files.csv).  Added number of deleted attachments to the HTML and text reports.  Changed column headers in the CSV reports to make them clearer.  All values in CSV reports are now displayed as megabytes to 2 decimal places.  All values in main screen are also displayed in megabytes to 2 decimal places.

Version 3.0.19 – Beta 1

Version 2.0.27 – Corrected problem with PST file link being intermittently deleted on install with Outlook 2000 that was installed in the unsupported Internet Only Mode.  The product will now detect if Outlook 2000 is in this mode and display an error.  A default profile should also no longer be required.
Version 2.0.26 – Corrected problem with sort not working and error dialog coming up when a PST file size was greater than 2 gigabytes.
Version 2.0.25 – Corrected problem with signed and encrypted e-mails by putting logic in to ignore the digital signature attachment for s/mime e-mails.  Added localization for German, French and Spanish for folder name comparison in Deleted Items and Sent Items processing.  Fixed problem in Sent Items date comparison where sent item had no date sent present or null date sent.
Version 2.0.24 - Took out check for double extension in file name for /Fix command.  PSTCompact Zip Edition did not always do this when creating a zip file attachment, so some attachments were not being fixed that should have been.  Corrected EULA to reference the state of Delaware rather than Florida.
Version 2.0.23 - Fixed numeric and date sorting on main screen and added the last modified date as a column for PST Files.  Improved error checking for detecting password protected PST Files.
Version 2.0.22 - Added /Fix command line switch to fix up attachments that had been zipped multiple times with an older version of PSTCompact Zip Edition.  Each additional time the program ran, it zipped the attachments again resulting in levels of zip files embedded in zip files for the number of times the attachment was processed.  The embedded zip files also had the incorrect original file extension, so the files appeared to be corrupted.  The /Fix command will restore such zip files to contain the original attachments.
Version 2.0.21 – Fixed problem where the entire Sent Items folder contents were deleted instead of items older than a selected number of days.
Version 2.0.20 – Fixed problem where a non admin user gets the message  "Outlook is not installed on this system. Outlook is needed to run this program."  It is still recommended that a user that is a member of Local Administrators be used to run the program.
Version 2.0.19 – Fixed problem with the toolbar getting cut off when fonts larger than the default fonts are used.  Code was added to make the toolbar sizing dynamic
Version 2.0.18 – Added ability to turn off compact option in settings.  Fixed problem where turning off Zip Attachments prevented Deleted Items and Sent Items from being cleared.  Fixed problem where only half the items in Deleted Items and Sent Items were deleted.
Version 2.0.17 – Added logic to use template database to create new database rather than ADO, so MDAC 2.5 (Windows 2000) is fully supported. Changed installation so backup of database not necessary to upgrade.
Version 2.0.16 – fixed problem with invalid attachments causing processing to stop on a folder.  Also added logic to not replace attachment with zip file attachment if the zip file is not smaller that the attachment.
Version 2.0.15 – fixed problem handling messages reporting attachments where there were no attachments.
Version 2.0.14 – Added support for non-English version of Microsoft Office.  The languages currently supported are English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Portuguese.

Running PSTCompress™ with Outlook 2000™

• PSTCompress can be installed on a machine with Outlook 2000 and will run with the following limitations.
• You may need the Outlook 2000 or Office 2000 installation CD in order to successfully reconfigure Outlook as detailed below.
• You must configure Outlook's Email Service Options to be Corporate or Workgroup to force the correct files to be installed.  If Outlook is configured as Internet Only, then it can be reconfigured by selecting Tools/Options from the menu bar and then selecting the Mail Delivery tab.

• You may only process PST files created with Outlook 2000, Outlook 2002 (XP).  Outlook 2003 files may be processed if they are not Unicode.

Running PSTCompress™ with non-English versions of Microsoft Office™

• The user language setting for a user running PSTCompress must match the language setting for Microsoft Office.  This will normally be the case without any addition action.  An example of where a problem will occur would be when a French version of Microsoft Office is installed on an English version of Microsoft Windows XP.
• The symptom of this problem will be the Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders dialog will be displayed during the compaction step, instead of the Compact Now dialog and will appear to hang.
• To correct this problem do the following:
  • Select the settings button and in the General tab of the Settings dialog select the correct language to override you systems settings.

• OR

• Windows 2000
  • Go to the Control Panel and select Regional Options
  • Set Your Locale (Language) to the language used by the Microsoft Office user interface. For example: if the Microsoft Office user interface is displayed in Dutch, set the Locale to Dutch (Netherlands)
• Windows XP & Windows 2003
  • Go to the Control Panel and select Regional and Language Options
  • Set the Standards and Fomats language to the language used by the Microsoft Office user interface. For example: if the Microsoft Office user interface is displayed in Dutch, set the Locale to Dutch (Netherlands)
• The following languages are supported:
  English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Portuguese

 

Running PSTCompress™  Version 2 and earlier as a service

• PSTCompress cannot run as a service using the system account
• The service account must have an Outlook profile.  This can be done by logging in to the service account on the machine PSTCompress is installed and running Outlook.  Configure Outlook as normal.
• The service account user locale id must be the same as the Micosoft Office language. See the previous section, Running PSTCompress with non-English versions of Microsoft Office, for instructions.
• This service account must be granted the log on as a service right.  To make sure this has been done use the service control panel to find the PSTCompressSvr service. View the service properties and then reenter the Log On User and Password and click apply.  The user will be granted the log on as a service right if it does not already have it. Then start the PSTCompressSVR Service as normal.
• If you uninstall PSTCompress you should stop the service in the service control panel and then in the settings dialog uncheck Register as a service

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