How can I combine archives in Outlook?

[SeanP]

I have several archives in Outlook 2003. Truthfully, I'm not sure how that
happened. I have had several crashed on my laptop before upgrading to XP Pro
and Office 2003. In any case, is there any way that I can combine all of
these into one?
Thanks,
Sean

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you are using Outlook 2003 unicode format for your .pst
file format, you can open each one of the archived .pst
files (Outlook->File->Open->Outlook Data File) and use
drag and drop to combine them into one.

Depending on the combined size of the archive .pst files,
you would need to run the unicode .pst file as the older
97-2002 ansi format has an absolute limit of 2 gigs and a
practical limit of around 1.8 gigs.