Thank you and two questions (scanpst and file size)

[heidiann]

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who participates in this group
for offering their help to so many users who need it. Like many people
who end up here, I've been having one Outlook problem after another for
the past few days, but thanks to the Search feature I haven't needed to
ask a question until now.

If you run scanpst.exe on a .pst file and it finds errors, but
successfully fixes those errors ... what are the chances that the
errors will return?

And a totally separate question ... what is the largest that you feel
comfortable having one .pst file grow?

Thanks again. Most appreciated.

~Heidi

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Good to hear you are using the search feature first!

1) The errors occur because of of the improper running of Outlook. If
Outlook runs properly it is very unlikely that errors will return. Not
closing Outlook properly before shutdown, crashing Outlook or connecting to
a pst-file on a networkshare are the main sources of corrupting the
pst-file.

2) Depends; if it is an ANSI (Outlook 97-2002) formatted pst-file going
above the 1.4GB is getting critical. For UNICODE formatted pst-file size
isn't an issue. Things that do play a part are your back-up medium (for
instance if it is a CD you wouldn't want your pst-file grow much larger than
600MB) and the time required to backup and restore. System resources play a
limited part as well but if you have a modern computer with a GB or more of
RAM and Outlook 2003 a pst-file of several GB would still perform ok.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who participates in this group
for offering their help to so many users who need it. Like many people
who end up here, I've been having one Outlook problem after another for
the past few days, but thanks to the Search feature I haven't needed to
ask a question until now.

If you run scanpst.exe on a .pst file and it finds errors, but
successfully fixes those errors ... what are the chances that the
errors will return?

And a totally separate question ... what is the largest that you feel
comfortable having one .pst file grow?

Thanks again. Most appreciated.

~Heidi