From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Looks like it

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830336

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 has both a different format and a larger
overall size limit for the personal folders (.pst) file than the .pst files
that are in the earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook. In Outlook 2002 and
earlier, the .pst files are in the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) format, and the overall size has a limit of 2 gigabytes (GB).


As in earlier versions of Outlook, Internet Message Access Protocol Version
4rev1 (IMAP4) accounts and HTTP accounts use .pst files that do not use the
Unicode format. Therefore, the .pst files for IMAP accounts or for HTTP
accounts are limited to 2 GB.


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:433c6614{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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.
>
> --
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "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. .
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Glenn M.
>>>
>>
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