Just hit the 2GB limit for a PST file

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I am tech savvy person who switched to Outlook after 20
years of Eudora....I often need to access my email
database...I have meticulously partitioned my Outlook
into subcategories or sub folders but much to my chagrin
Outlook views the subdirectories as part of the same PST
file which I am told has a 2GB file size limit....

I am making a backup copy of the PST right now

How would I paritition the 2GB PST file to keep the
folders I use regularly and Archive those that I don't
use as much? Should I create PST files for each folder I
have? How do you manahe these large PST files...can you
brak them up into smaller PSTS?
 
If your file is at 2GB and you can still open it, consider yourself lucky --
for most it's unusable at that point and it has to be cropped in order to
salvage any of the data.

Read up on AutoArchive and decide if you want to use that or if you'd rather
just create new .PST files as needed and manually move the data over. You
can have as many .PST files as you like, and they don't have to all be open
in Outlook at once -- in fact, storing them elsewhere and opening them only
as needed will likely keep your data safer. It's up to you how you want to
divide up the data between your everyday .PST and the others.

The following article describes the process for retrieving data from any
..PST file at a later date:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/readarchive.htm

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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