Advantages of new pst format

[Jon]

Hi,

My PST file is currently around 700Mbytes and I'm using the old 97-2002 format. It is on quite an
old PC (Pentium III, 512M RAM, 667MHz, XP pro). I am using Outlook 2003.

I know that the new PST format overcomes the 2Gbyte PST size limitation, although I am nowhere near
that yet. Are there any other advantages to the new format, such as general speed (especially for a
low-performance PC), speed when doing a search, robustness against corruptions, etc?

Thanks!

 

[Pat Willener]

One of the important advantages is that it fully supports multibyte
character messages, such a Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc. This is for
many international businesses a must.

I am sure that there are more advantages, but I don't have any details.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Other than Unicode support, not really. If you don't correspond with people
using languages that use other character sets (like Chinese, Japanese,
Arabic, Russian etc) then Unicode is less important. If you will ever need
to open the pst in an older version of outlook, you'll need to use the old
pst format (that you use now).

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[Jon]

OK thanks Diane, that's very helpful. I will stick to the old format.


Other than Unicode support, not really. If you don't correspond with people
using languages that use other character sets (like Chinese, Japanese,
Arabic, Russian etc) then Unicode is less important. If you will ever need
to open the pst in an older version of outlook, you'll need to use the old
pst format (that you use now).

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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