From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Thanks.  I also noticed that his "Auto Archived" PST file is also
at the 2 gig limit as well....

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Glenn M.
"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> This is another handy tool:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b
8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en -
> it's an add-on to Outlook that will prompt the user ever X days
> (configurabe via a gui) to backup the pst file, and all the user has to do
> is click yes or no. It just copies the pst file to a specified location,
> nothing fancier than that, but in your case you might have gotten away
> with just a few days worth of messages to recover from the damaged file.
>
> Oh, and it's free :-)
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:433dade2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I've found a couple of programs that proclaim their ability to either
>> repair and/or extract the data from PST files, including those that are
>> over the 2 gig file limit (one says files up to 4 gig in size).  One says
>> you can either selectively extract specific "folders",
or extract the
>> entire file, and it creates a folder structure with that mirrors that of
>> the source PST, and puts all the items as individual files within each
>> folder.  Then it says that you can use the same program to re-populate a
>> new PST file.
>>
>> One is $125.00, and is shareware, unlicensed version will do up to 5
>> items per folder (not too useful other than as a proof of concept), and
>> the other is $249.00.
>>
>> Me thinks one of those might be a good tool to have around anyway.
>>
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>>
>> Glenn M.
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