From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Thanks.  That assumes you can get into the old file cleanly to move the
material to the new format/size.  From your description, it's a one way
conversion, and there is no "auto convert" of an existing file
(especially if it's oversize already).

I think one of the shareware/commercial recovery programs is the path to
go, and use it to recover from the still existing full size too large PST
file.

I think that's the path I'm going for now.

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Glenn M.
"Rich"  wrote in message news:433e0df9{at}w3.nls.net...
   All I can say is that I have a PST larger than 2GB with Outlook 2003.  I
can't tell you what the upper limit is.  Based on file I/O it is no longer
4GB.  There may be other limits that kick in.

   In Outlook 2003 when you create a new PST there is a choice between
Outlook 97-2002 format and the current format.  You want the current format
which is not backward compatible with pre-Outlook 2003.  The only way I
know how to switch an existing file to the new format is to create a new
file and move all messages from the old file to the new one.  That is what
I did.  If there is another way I don't know it.  Creating a new file and
moving was easy enough I never looked further.

Rich

  "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:433d6391$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  OK, based on that (32 bit vs 64 bit), would that over 2gig limit file be
  openable with Office 2003?  Would I then be able to compact it/clean it
up,
  and then when it's properly "shrunk" in size, re-open it in Office XP, or
  does Office 2003 make a change to the file during it's opening/compacting
  that's not backward compatible?

  (Thinking out loud, in finding a machine with Office XP installed, and
using
  that to repair the particular PST file).

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  Glenn M.
  "Rich"  wrote in message news:433c9e62$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     In Office XP the PST file I/O uses 32-bit file offsets.  In Office 2003
  the file I/O uses 64-bit offsets.  I don't know if the file format itself
  has some limit.  As I have a PST that is larger than 2GB that I use with
  Office 11.

     If you have two PSTs reported as opened I would check to see if you
don't
  have two different paths to the same file.  If this happened to me I would
  go to the data file options and if two are listed remove one.  If only one
  is listed I would delete the MAPI profile and recreate it.

  Rich

    "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
  news:433c45c6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
    The 2 gig file size limit...is that an Outlook limit, or a hard OS/File
    System limit?  Running on Windows 2K, and I believe formatted partition
is
    NTFS.  Might be Fat32 though..

    Reason I ask, is I just spent the bulk of today repairing a PST file
that
    had exceeded the file size, and could not be opened.  Had to download
the
    2gig limit truncation program, and then run Scanpst.exe to repair the
  file.
    Lots of resulting corruption, for example, all the peoples names are
gone
  in
    his contacts list, but the internal info on each entry is there.

    He's now getting close to 3000 reminders opening, almost like every
  reminder
    he's ever set is now back.

    In the process of correcting this, we did upgrade to Office XP from
Office
    2K.  At least in Office XP, the reminders come up in a Reminders list,
    rather than a gazillion popup reminder windows on his desktop, which was
    crashing Outlook.

    Also, now even though we're only opening 1 PST file, it shows as 2,
which
    are identical, and neither can be closed, which does indicate it's the
  same
    file, with 2 instances being displayed.  Even the indications on the
  folder
    list match, when an email arrives, it shows as (1) in both inboxes.
  Anyone
    have any clue how to fix that????

    He's in massive "trim" mode right now, as well as running
compact on the
    file.  What really killed him space was, is he has tons of documents
saved
    with his Tasks list, and tons of attachments included in his email.
  .

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    Glenn M.

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