Help! Small site has grown to 25GB in 5 weeks!

Question

I built a sharepoint site as a business solution at our office that went into production about 5 weeks ago.  It only consists of one large list and a couple small lookup lists, and one library.  In the last day or two performance on the server
has really slowed.  Our SP administrator says the site is already 25GB.  How can that be and what can be done?  The library contains .msg files with Word and PDF attachments in them. I turned on the file size field in the library. 
Though there are a couple that are 2MBs, the total is still probably under 10MB.
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Answer 1

Hi run4it,
I'm not very clear why you append '.' to the text field.
For this issue, Ramakrishnaraja is correct, you can set the version limit on list settings and delete old versions.
As it is not such convenient to use PowerShell command in SPS 2007, you can use server object model instead, create a console project in VS, the code logic to delete old versions is similar to the PowerShell command provided in above post, change it to server
object model in your project to delete the versions.
Thanks,
Qiao
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