From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Thanks, I'll give that a try later today or over the weekend.

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Glenn M.
"Rich"  wrote in message news:433d5d9b{at}w3.nls.net...
   I would delete the MAPI profile and recreate it.

Rich

  "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:433d45ab$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  Rich,

  I checked, this AM, and the paths on both displayed opened files are
exactly
  the same, and neither can be closed.

  Any other place to look (like in the registry) where there might be a
  duplicate entry that can/should be removed?

  Also, the gazillion reminders popping up are related to the lost displayed
  names on the top of the contacts. He's having to open each contact, change
  the Displayed Name to an alternate format, and save and close the contact
  (All initially displayed with blank names).  This then updates the
  particular reminder, and allows it to be dismissed.  Not sure how we're
  going to get the reminders that point to "missing emails" out of the
  reminder list though, as you can't dismiss them, since the original link
  can't be found.

  Any pointers to where those are stored (if they're accessible) would be
  helpful.

  After the Compact, the file is now down to 656mb, instead of 1.9gig.
That's
  encouraging.

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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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