pst file large and strange outlook behaviour

[elmurado]

has anyone seen this before?
Outlook 2003-the pst has grown to 2Gb.
Now when new mail is received, strange files appear on either users Home
drive on a network server (when in the office) or go straight to her C:\
drive when not.
The files have the format of s1cg.11 s1cg.12 etc etc- Hundreds get created
-seems like one for each mail coming in. I only saw what was happening
because the server stopped allowing connections across the domain because
this user had 127 of these files 'open'-bascially held open by Outlook.
Closed Outlook and forced disconnect and close of the user and files and I
could then delete these weird files. Some of them were txt files and were
just the emails as txt.

I am trying to archive and then compact to see what happens. Was very weird
almost virsu like activity.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What format are you using for the .pst file? If the older file format
(ansi) its upper limit is 2 gigs but problems begin at anywhere from 1.6 to
1.87 gigs.

See if this helps: http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, elmurado asked:

| has anyone seen this before?
| Outlook 2003-the pst has grown to 2Gb.
| Now when new mail is received, strange files appear on either users
| Home drive on a network server (when in the office) or go straight to
| her C:\ drive when not.
| The files have the format of s1cg.11 s1cg.12 etc etc- Hundreds get
| created -seems like one for each mail coming in. I only saw what was
| happening because the server stopped allowing connections across the
| domain because this user had 127 of these files 'open'-bascially held
| open by Outlook. Closed Outlook and forced disconnect and close of
| the user and files and I could then delete these weird files. Some of
| them were txt files and were just the emails as txt.
|
| I am trying to archive and then compact to see what happens. Was very
| weird almost virsu like activity.

 

[elmurado]

Thanks Milly--i am in the process of forcing unicode to prevent this from
happening--have you ever seen this weird file behaviour though?