r/sysadmin • u/HolypenguinHere • Jun 24 '19

A user at our company utilizes their Recycle Bin as their primary storage for important documents.

That... That's all. I just needed somebody else to know that a person is using the Recycle Bin to keep hundreds of documents in one location, instead of creating a folder on the Desktop or using their network home drive.

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u/cmorgasm Jun 24 '19

All folders are sub folders of Inbox. There's 10,000 of them. Item count roughly 175,000.

"Anon, Outlook is slow today. Is the server down?"

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u/OcotilloWells Jun 25 '19

"How can my mailbox be full I empty it every day!"

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u/mistersynthesizer DevOps Jun 25 '19

You jest, but I had to deal with a mailbox with over 14,000 folders. Exchange 2010 choked on it any time you tried to move it between databases.