Deleted emails

[Eeeek]

Sorry I am being a real pest on this one, I was given some advice yesterday to find supposed "deleted" emails I should search for *.pst on outlook. I did that last night and there was 45000mb but when i did "open with" and then "notepad" it was all gobbledygook. can anyone tell me in laymans terms how i view this stuff and then git rid of anything i need to? Thanks so much.

[rojash]

Notepad is a text editor. A .pst file is not a text file, it's a type of database file used by Outlook. You can only view its contents from within Outlook. The following applies to Outlook 2002, but I assume it's the same or similar in other versions:

Open Outlook:
Click File/ Data File management
Click add
Choose personal folders file (*.pst)
Browse to the file which you found by searching, select it and click ok.
Once you have added it to the list you can examine the contents.
Afterwards, you can remove it from the list (ensuring that you don't remove your normal pst file by mistake!)

[j2buttonsw]

Interestingly, .pst files have a 2 GB size limit so you must have some lot of emails in a 45 GB pst file.