I use Outlook 2011 for work email/calendar/etc. ( I could switch to Mail/iCal, but haven't.)

My work email account is capped at 150MB. I keep bumping up against the limit.

My calendar has over 36MB of attachments.

In Windows Outlook, it's relatively easy to select a list view for Calendar, and sort by attachments and size.

Doesn't seem that that's possible on Outlook 2011. Here's a statement by a MS support engineer:
Outlook 2011 does not support attaching items to calendar appointments. Hence the calendar entries will not contain any attachments in them for us to search and delete it.
Girish M
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I'm not sure how that statement can be made: I have many calendar items with attachments in them. The Meeting drop down menu has an Attachments submenu offering Save, Preview, Add and Remove. Add and Remove are greyed out. I can create a meeting, and add attachments.

Finally, my questions:
How do I find attachments easily?
How do I delete attachments?
Can this be done in Mail (or another email client) that I should switch to?

Thanks!

Cary

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Cary
The Meeting drop down menu has an Attachments submenu offering Save, Preview, Add and Remove. Add and Remove are greyed out. I can create a meeting, and add attachments.

IIRC the Add and Remove are greyed out because you don't have rights to edit the meeting you did not create in Outlook. If you create a meeting you can add or remove attachments.

Ask for them to raise the account quota if they insist on adding attachments to them that you cannot change. Otherwise you can decline the meeting to remove from your calendar and create your own calendar entry for the meeting (but you'll loose any auto updates if it's changed) or go through your email with a fine toothed comb to weed out attachments there (save the attachment to your local computer and then remove attachment from the email).

Get that idiotic cap increased. Storage space is dirt cheap.

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Get that idiotic cap increased. Storage space is dirt cheap.

Storage space may be cheap, but if you're in a large organization with lots of users, under a managed contract for administration, it isn't so cheap anymore. They just upped the cap where I work from 50MB to 100MB (yes, that's megabytes). They don't want you keeping stuff online, where they have to back it up. We're encourage to offload stuff to PST files to keep storage requirements to a minimum.

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IIRC the Add and Remove are greyed out because you don't have rights to edit the meeting you did not create in Outlook. If you create a meeting you can add or remove attachments.

Ask for them to raise the account quota if they insist on adding attachments to them that you cannot change. Otherwise you can decline the meeting to remove from your calendar and create your own calendar entry for the meeting (but you'll loose any auto updates if it's changed) or go through your email with a fine toothed comb to weed out attachments there (save the attachment to your local computer and then remove attachment from the email).

I can't get the quota raised.

Declining the meeting won't work - First of all, the decline gets sent to the organizer, second, the updates don't follow, third, it's a pain in the butt.

Going through my email with a fine-toothed comb is OK, but I can't remove the attachment - that option is greyed out. That's the whole reason I'm asking this to begin with.

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Cary
Going through my email with a fine-toothed comb is OK, but I can't remove the attachment - that option is greyed out. That's the whole reason I'm asking this to begin with.

Remove any attachments from your emails, not the calendar events. You should be able to remove attachments from any email. 2nd recommendation would be to cull any emails stored on the server but emails without attachments take up an minimal amount of space so don't expect huge gains from just deleting plain emails.

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They don't want you keeping stuff online, where they have to back it up. We're encourage to offload stuff to PST files to keep storage requirements to a minimum.

They don't care about backing up the data on your computer?!? Oi vey....

In Mac Outlook 2011, when you accept or reject a meeting request, the email gets moved to Deleted Items. Go there. Sort by attachment. Select the ones in the past that have a meeting icon, right-click, Delete.

Or just let it fill up and let IT deal with it. If they're going to cap you so low, don't make their problem your problem. Eventually someone high enough up with be upset they can't send you emails.

You could also setup a Rule within Outlook with the Kind of Meeting Request and the size set to something like 500KB, and have it bounce back to the sender... guess that's not an option. You could forward it to your IT person so they get the picture.

You can probably create a local folder, then create a rule to move large meeting requests directly to the local folder.

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In Mac Outlook 2011, when you accept or reject a meeting request, the email gets moved to Deleted Items. Go there. Sort by attachment. Select the ones in the past that have a meeting icon, right-click, Delete.

Or just let it fill up and let IT deal with it. If they're going to cap you so low, don't make their problem your problem. Eventually someone high enough up with be upset they can't send you emails.

You could also setup a Rule within Outlook with the Kind of Meeting Request and the size set to something like 500KB, and have it bounce back to the sender... guess that's not an option. You could forward it to your IT person so they get the picture.

You can probably create a local folder, then create a rule to move large meeting requests directly to the local folder.

I've deleted the meeting requests - I am left with meetings in Calendar that are either completely deletable ( not a great choice - I like to have a record of meetings and attendees), or I can keep them and not be able to delete attachments.