From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Outlook prior to the latest 2003 versions had a 2G limit on the pst file,
and I think even Outlook 2000 would allow it to go crash & bang -full.
I've seen it once or twice, and it doesn't really warn about anything, it
just creates a big mess. Sometimes it can be re-opened and cleaned with
very little damage, but at least once I've had to work really hard with
everything I could think of to salvage at least something.

It's a management type of situation, they always keep everything & then
some in their Outlook, which scares the shite out of me. So I've tried to
impose a rule whereever I can: if you can't make a backup copy of the pst
file to a single CD, then it's too large. Impossible to enforce, I know,
but one has to try.

The latest Outlook will allow you to store all your life in that one file,
fill a huge RAID array of disks with it, and then, one night, right after
passing that 7 Terabyte mark, you wake up and realize that this is a new
file format which doesn't really have a long track record, so no-one can
say how well it handles... I'm not going to be an admin that day 


Antti Kurenniemi

"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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