>2 GB OST limit in OL2K vs. OL2K3

[Robert Gordon]

I have been told that the 2 GB local cached limit has been eliminated in
Outlook 2003.

However, does this only apply to a local cached copy created from scratch
by
Outlook 2003, rather than an upgrade of Outlook 2003 over an older install
of
Outlook 2000 which already has created a .ost file?

The reason I ask is that I've noticed some of my Outlook 2003 client
receiving the
"offline file can't be >2 GB" error message, and the common factor is that
all those
clients were done as in place upgrades to OL2K3, over Outlook 2000 which
was
already set up for offline Send/Receive syncing, rather than being done as
a fresh
install with no .ost files previously existing.

Comments?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

It applies to .pst and .ost files created in Outlook 2003. Existing files
are not converted to the new format.

 

[K. Ramaswamy]

Is there a means of upgrading the existing file to the new format?

K. Ramaswamy

 

[Ivan Bútora]

Manually - create a file in the new format, and then copy what you want into it.



Is there a means of upgrading the existing file to the new format?

K. Ramaswamy

 

[Roady]

Also note that Exchange 5.5 doesn't support UNICODE and therefore can't
create pst-files bigger than 2GB even when you have Outlook 2003.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Since Exchange doesn't create the files, Outlook does, I'm not sure that's
relevant. You can certainly have a Unicode-capable file with no
Unicode-specific data in it.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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Also note that Exchange 5.5 doesn't support UNICODE and therefore can't
create pst-files bigger than 2GB even when you have Outlook 2003.

 

[Roady]

According to Diane the size of the ost (or pst) is controlled by the file
format which is
controlled by the server - exchange 5.5 only uses ansi versions, not
Unicode.

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[Roady]

Forgot to add;
This was in a discussion where a user tried to create an ost-file bigger
than 2GB with Outlook 2003 and Exchange 5.5.
I first suggested to delete the original ost-file so it got rebuild and
later to recreate the mail profile; neither worked.

Diane then came with the remark that a Exchange 5.5 would be the case.
I have to admit that I haven't tested it myself.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Cool. Sort of makes sense, although the only place I've seen Outlook think
it knows what Exchange it's talking to is with SBS.
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