From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Then it's got to be an Outlook limitation?

When trying to open that PST file, the error states specifically that the
file is over the 2 Gig file limit, and that you need to remove material
from it by doing Shift/Delete to permanently delete the data.  Kind of hard
to do, when you can't even load or open the PST file because it's over the
limit.  And you have to download the specific tool to "shrink"
the file. You get the option to set how much to lop off the end, as it
copies the file to a new target folder, then you run scanpst on the newly
created file.

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Glenn M.
"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:433c58ca{at}w3.nls.net...
> Max filesize for Fat32 is 4 gig, Fat16 is 2 gig and NTFS is limited by
> volume size. Dunno about Outlook limits
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> "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..
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>> 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.
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>> He's now getting close to 3000 reminders opening, almost like every
>> reminder he's ever set is now back.
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>> 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.
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>> 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????
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>> 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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