Reclaim Disk Space after Deleting mailbox Archives

[Chris_Burke]

On Enterprise Vault for Exchange 7.5 SP6, I have deleted several Large Archives. The mailbox Vault and Journal Vault are sperate. I have not seen any reduction in disk space- trying to figure out why??

[AndrewB]

do you have collections enabled? if yes, the cabs will not be deleted or reorganized to claim the space until the number of items inside falls below a certain threshold.

[CFreeX]

Do you have a collection enabled? If so, have a look at http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH61090

[Chris_Burke]

Andrew,

I do have collections on- I was a bit concerned that was the issue- I have a disk space issue, deleted a bunch of old archives that were no longer needed and I did not reclaim any space- I do not see away to change that behavior- do you (or anyone else) know of a way to alter that behavior.

Thanks

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

I wrote this article detailing how collections and sparse collections work:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-collections-and-sparse-collections-work

Also see CareFreeX's link that he posted:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH61090

and here is a reg key and some SQL Queries you can run:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH87400

[Chris_Burke]

Thanks for the info guys- very informative