Does OL impose a PST file size limit?

[J.Kearney]

I'm running Outlook from Office XP Pro (aka Outlook 2002),
does OL have a restriction on the maximum size of the PST file?

I've run into an interesting problem. OL ran great last Thurs.
but not Fri. Now it's "not responding". It still acceses and pulls
down mail from my server, but it locks up upon trying to read.

I think I've noticed that older mail fine to read but the new stuff
is locking it up. It's almost as if a pointer can't get up there for the
most current.

My PST file is 1015 meg., just over one gig.

I'd like to open another PST to use as a Personel Folder archive,
but again OL refuses and becomes "unresponsive".

I suspect that moving stuff to the Deleted Items dosen't really delete
them; it just arranges a pointer to skip those data addresses, and the file
itself remains constant in size.

Any suggestions on accessing (for the purpose of moving) some
of the most recent incoming mail?

Thanks in advance.
Joe

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Yes, there is a file size and item count limitation.

2GB max file size
65,000 items per folder
65,000 folders per folder


Couple of thoughts...

1) Run the inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) against your *.pst file to rule
out corruption
2) exclude *.pst files from being scanned by antivirus software

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

once you move it to deleted items you need to empty the deleted folder -
right click on it and choose empty.

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[J.Kearney]

Scanpst.exe? Interesting. Never heard of it, but it's running now & we'll
see what happens.

As for emptying the Deleted Items, I set OL to do that automaticaly upon
exit.
Although I still suspect emptying this "folder" simply sets pointers to skip
those
unwanted items.

Thanks to both of you, Neo & Diane. One is never to old to learn something
new.
JK

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

correct, the pointers are removed in the index but until you compact the
file, the messages still exist. Once you hit 20% white space (messages
without pointers) outlook will begin to compact it automatically.

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