Archive is FULL will not allow me to delete anything.

[ElizaD]

Hi,

I am in a pickle, as my outlook archive.pst will not let me archive any
messages, nor will it allow me to delete anything currently IN the archive to
make more space. I get an error message stating that the "archive.pst cannot
be accessed. There is not enough space on the disk." I have plenty of free
space on the drive itself so I suspect the error message may not be telling
the whole truth.

Has anyone had this happen? Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Close the archive, rename it and restart outlook and let it make a new
archive folder.

Which version of Outlook? how big is the archive? Outlook 2002 and older
versions create pst which cannot grow larger than 2GB.

 

[ElizaD]

Hi Diane,

Thanks for responding. It is Outlook 2003, and the archive is 3.99GB. (I
know... I'm embarassed.)

I did create another archive file to alleviate my immediate problem of
running out of inbox space, however, I really don't want to have to search
two archive files when looking for something.

I"M hoping there is some way to begin deleting files from the "original"
Archive file.

Thanks,
E.D.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

If its 2003, and 4GB, it should be Unicode format. are you sure the drive
where its stored is not full? What OS are you using?

 

[Brian Tillman]

If its 2003, and 4GB, it should be Unicode format. are you sure the
drive where its stored is not full? What OS are you using?

FAT32 file system, I'll bet, which allows 4GB files max.

 

[ElizaD]

You are right. It is a FAT32 file system. Do you know of anyway around
this? Maybe I can try copying the .pst to an NTFS system, access it there,
delete a lot of it and then copy it back?

 

[Brian Tillman]

You are right. It is a FAT32 file system. Do you know of anyway
around this? Maybe I can try copying the .pst to an NTFS system,
access it there, delete a lot of it and then copy it back?

I'd convert the FAT32 file system to NTFS.