PST problems

[John]

I'm running Windows 200 Pro and Outlook 2000 and have just hit the 2
gigabyte 'glass ceiling' of the outlook PST file. Unfortunately the utility
Microsoft recomends on thier website completely FOBARs up the file. It has
also deleted everything from the past 7 days, with the exception of three
spam messages.

Does anyone know of a better way than this to recover my information? And
does anyone know if it's possible to run outlook with more than one PST
file, so you don't hit that 2 GIG limit? Or is it just a case of deleting
mail records as you go? Or other...?

John

 

[Jay Somerset]

I'm running Windows 200 Pro and Outlook 2000 and have just hit the 2
gigabyte 'glass ceiling' of the outlook PST file. Unfortunately the utility
Microsoft recomends on thier website completely FOBARs up the file. It has
also deleted everything from the past 7 days, with the exception of three
spam messages.

Does anyone know of a better way than this to recover my information? And
does anyone know if it's possible to run outlook with more than one PST
file, so you don't hit that 2 GIG limit? Or is it just a case of deleting
mail records as you go? Or other...?

John

You can certainly use multiple .PST files. Just add them as Personal
Folders. I do this to keep old emails around accessible to Outlook, while
getting them off the server, and "archiving" them to my local hard drive.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

The .pst crop tool is the only tool to crop some items out of your .pst
file. You can run multiple .pst files but I would first recommend emptying
your deleted items folder, save attachments to your hard drive, archive your
sent items folder for starts. Then, set a reasonable archive interval, say
2 months and archive religiously.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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John <[email protected]> asked:

| I'm running Windows 200 Pro and Outlook 2000 and have just hit the 2
| gigabyte 'glass ceiling' of the outlook PST file. Unfortunately the
| utility Microsoft recomends on thier website completely FOBARs up the
| file. It has also deleted everything from the past 7 days, with the
| exception of three spam messages.
|
| Does anyone know of a better way than this to recover my information?
| And does anyone know if it's possible to run outlook with more than
| one PST file, so you don't hit that 2 GIG limit? Or is it just a case
| of deleting mail records as you go? Or other...?
|
| John