>>>>I am pretty sure now that the problem has to do with the specific Outlook.pst file. On this computer (where I am typing this message) I have the same Office 365 and Outlook installed. And when I would start Outlook (up until 1/2 hour ago) I never had a problem with memory leak.
>>>>Then now that Avast completely f*cked up my "main" computer, I need to temporarily move files from "broken" computer to this one. I copied the Outlook.pst from the "broken" computer to this one and now when I open Outlook 365 on this computer and click on Reply to any message, the memory leak starts.
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>>>Rebuild the cdxes... :)
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>>>Really, sounds like some internal tables got whacked. See if that database (what's it internally, JET?) has an equivalent of pack command. Just rebuild it - or create an empty one and import everything from the bad one.
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>>It appears that MS removed Data File Management (where you could compress/pack PST file in prior versions) from Outlook 365/2013 :(
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>How about
https://pcandtablet.com/outlook-2013/1034/how-to-compact-and-reduce-the-size-of-outlook-2013-pst.html ?
Thank you. This compacted the outlook.pst file but it didn't fix the memory leak. Back to looking for solution.
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