From: "Glenn Meadows" 

OK, Thanks.  I didn't recall if it was Outlook 2k2 or 2k3 that had the
larger file limit.  Obviously, it is 2k3.  Thanks.

Our COO gets TONS of large attachments in reports, contracts, etc, that get
sent back and forth during negotiations, and all that gets kept in his sent
and inboxes.  His last attempts at archiving were failing, which he failed
to tell me, as the archive was at 1.8 gig, and his pst was also at 1.9 gig.
At least Outlook failed more gracefully than Outlook 2k did . 
2K just crashed, 2k2 died with a strange error message, but never corrupted
anything.  Just wouldn't download any email.

He's doing a bunch of archiving/house cleaning this weekend.  I think what
was getting him, is that he routinely has to go back into old archives
looking for financial info that was sent several years ago, and what he was
doing, was re-importing into his open archive folder, all of the older
email inbox stuff, rather than just opening the old archive pst.  Now I
showed him how to open/close older archives, which will save him a bunch of
space, and a bunch of time.

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Glenn M.
"Rich"  wrote in message news:43910617{at}w3.nls.net...
   Outlook 2003 introduced the new larger format.  If you create a new PST
in 2003 the dialog shows two options




Outlook 2002 uses 32-bit file I/O.  There may be a format limit that
restricts size to 2GB.  I have a file > 2GB with Outlook 2003 and the
new format PST.

Rich

  "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:4390b35f{at}w3.nls.net...
  Or did our discussion revolve around Outlook 2003???  (A mind is a
terrible
  thing to get fuzzy)...LOL...

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  Glenn M.
  "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
  news:4390b03e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  > Open for discussion/clarification:
  >
  > From a prior discussion about this, I was under the
impression/assumption
  > that the 2 gig file limit for PST files in Outlook 2002 (Office XP) was
  > removed, unlike Office 2k.  This article at the MS knowledgebase seems
to
  > contradict that, unless SP3 changes this:
  >
  > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305108
  >
  > SYMPTOMS
  > If you try to copy files to a personal folders (.pst) file that exceeds
  > the 1.82 gigabyte (GB) limit in Outlook 2002, you may receive the
  > following error message:
  > Can't copy the items. The operation failed.
  > CAUSE
  > This problem can occur because Outlook 2002 limits the .pst file size to
  > approximately 1.82 GB.
  > RESOLUTION
  > To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft
  > Office XP. For additional information, click the following article
number
  > to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  >
  > --------------------
  >
  > I've now pulled the SP3 full install, haven't applied it yet, as we
  > created a new PST file, than moved/imported/archived the troubling
files.
  >
  >
  > --
  >
  > Glenn M.
  >

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