Weight Diet

Frequently Asked Questions

Weight Diet is an Outlook add-in designed to make Outlook run faster by optimizing your Outlook data files. This Frequently Asked Questions section was composed using the most popular questions that our users asked us over time.

Once I moved my attachments to disk, can I restore them back to my Outlook data file?

Yes, you can. If you wish to restore your file attachments and put them back inside your Outlook data file, simply go to the Weight Diet toolbar and choose the option “Restore Attachments”.

I had to reinstall Windows and now I can not access my attachments! How can I fix it?

If you reinstalled Windows (or your MS-Office platform), you have to also reinstall Weight Diet, then perform the steps described in the previous answer.

I have optimized Outlook using Weight Diet, but it still runs slow... Now what?

Depending on your computer overall performance, Outlook may run slow even if your data files are fully optimized. Reinstalling Windows might help.

Can Weight Diet accidentally erase important emails?

Absolutely no! When you start the optimization process, you can choose which options you’d like to activate. No matter which ones you choose, your important emails are safe because Weight Diet only looks for emails that are 100% duplicated or that contain certain subject keyword that you can configure.

What is the latest product version? How do I know if an update is available?

The latest Weight Diet version is 1.0.66.0. You can always check for updates by using the updates button available from your main Weight Diet toolbar.


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