Max PST size?

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Mitch Tulloch

Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size of the
Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the Outlook.pst and Archive.pst
files?
 
Hi Mitch,

every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.

If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every single PST
file could have 2 GB.

Outlook.PST = 2 GB
archive.pst = 2GB

Combined = 4 GB
 
So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook would
still work and not choke as long as each file is under the 2GB limit?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com



Oliver Vukovics said:
Hi Mitch,

every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.

If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every single PST
file could have 2 GB.

Outlook.PST = 2 GB
archive.pst = 2GB

Combined = 4 GB

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Oliver Vukovics
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Mitch Tulloch said:
Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size of the
Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the Outlook.pst and Archive.pst
files?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com
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Correct.

Mitch Tulloch said:
So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook would
still work and not choke as long as each file is under the 2GB limit?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com



Oliver Vukovics said:
Hi Mitch,

every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.

If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every single PST
file could have 2 GB.

Outlook.PST = 2 GB
archive.pst = 2GB

Combined = 4 GB

--
Oliver Vukovics
Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Synchronize your Outlook: Public SyncTool
http://www.publicshareware.com

Mitch Tulloch said:
Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size of the
Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the Outlook.pst and Archive.pst
files?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com
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Excepting problems can appear above 1.6gb

Mitch Tulloch said:
So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook would
still work and not choke as long as each file is under the 2GB limit?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com



Oliver Vukovics said:
Hi Mitch,

every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.

If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every single PST
file could have 2 GB.

Outlook.PST = 2 GB
archive.pst = 2GB

Combined = 4 GB

--
Oliver Vukovics
Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Synchronize your Outlook: Public SyncTool
http://www.publicshareware.com

Mitch Tulloch said:
Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size of the
Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the Outlook.pst and Archive.pst
files?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com
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This particular user was migrated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 simply
by copying the Outlook.pst file from the old machine to the new one, so I'm
assuming the Outlook.pst file is still ANSI. Is there any way to migrate the
PST file to Unicode format to take advantage of the larger PST file support
Unicode offers?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com



neo said:
Correct.

Mitch Tulloch said:
So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook would
still work and not choke as long as each file is under the 2GB limit?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com



Oliver Vukovics said:
Hi Mitch,

every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.

If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every single PST
file could have 2 GB.

Outlook.PST = 2 GB
archive.pst = 2GB

Combined = 4 GB

--
Oliver Vukovics
Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Synchronize your Outlook: Public SyncTool
http://www.publicshareware.com

Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size of the
Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the Outlook.pst and
Archive.pst
files?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com
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Create a new .pst file in the unicode format (file->new->outlook data file->personal folders file) and then drag and drop items from the old to the new. Once everything is moved over, close the old one.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mitch Tulloch asked:

| This particular user was migrated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003
| simply by copying the Outlook.pst file from the old machine to the
| new one, so I'm assuming the Outlook.pst file is still ANSI. Is there
| any way to migrate the PST file to Unicode format to take advantage
| of the larger PST file support Unicode offers?
|
|
| || Correct.
||
|| ||| So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook
||| would still work and not choke as long as each file is under the
||| 2GB limit?
|||
||| --
||| Cheers,
||| Mitch Tulloch
||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||| http://www.mtit.com
|||
|||
|||
||| |||| Hi Mitch,
||||
|||| every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.
||||
|||| If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every
|||| single PST file could have 2 GB.
||||
|||| Outlook.PST = 2 GB
|||| archive.pst = 2GB
||||
|||| Combined = 4 GB
||||
|||| --
|||| Oliver Vukovics
|||| Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
|||| Synchronize your Outlook: Public SyncTool
|||| http://www.publicshareware.com
||||
|||| ||||| Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size
||||| of the Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the
||||| Outlook.pst and Archive.pst files?
|||||
||||| --
||||| Cheers,
||||| Mitch Tulloch
||||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||||| http://www.mtit.com
 
Further information are also on this site:

"Convert a non-Unicode data file (.pst) to a Unicode data file (.pst)"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010383511033.aspx

--
Oliver Vukovics
Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Synchronize Outlook between Laptop and PC: Public SyncTool
http://www.publicshareware.com



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Create a new .pst file in the unicode format (file->new->outlook data
file->personal folders file) and then drag and drop items from the old to
the new. Once everything is moved over, close the old one.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mitch Tulloch asked:

| This particular user was migrated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003
| simply by copying the Outlook.pst file from the old machine to the
| new one, so I'm assuming the Outlook.pst file is still ANSI. Is there
| any way to migrate the PST file to Unicode format to take advantage
| of the larger PST file support Unicode offers?
|
|
| || Correct.
||
|| ||| So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook
||| would still work and not choke as long as each file is under the
||| 2GB limit?
|||
||| --
||| Cheers,
||| Mitch Tulloch
||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||| http://www.mtit.com
|||
|||
|||
||| |||| Hi Mitch,
||||
|||| every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.
||||
|||| If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every
|||| single PST file could have 2 GB.
||||
|||| Outlook.PST = 2 GB
|||| archive.pst = 2GB
||||
|||| Combined = 4 GB
||||
|||| --
|||| Oliver Vukovics
|||| Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
|||| Synchronize your Outlook: Public SyncTool
|||| http://www.publicshareware.com
||||
|||| ||||| Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size
||||| of the Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the
||||| Outlook.pst and Archive.pst files?
|||||
||||| --
||||| Cheers,
||||| Mitch Tulloch
||||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||||| http://www.mtit.com
 
Mitch Tulloch said:
So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook
would still work and not choke as long as each file is under the 2GB
limit?
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In fact, the extra PSTs don't have to be archive PSTs, either. You can have
multiple PST active in your mail profile so that you can move things around
as you see fit. You don't need to rely on autoarchive to do the job.
 
Mitch Tulloch said:
This particular user was migrated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003
simply by copying the Outlook.pst file from the old machine to the
new one, so I'm assuming the Outlook.pst file is still ANSI. Is there
any way to migrate the PST file to Unicode format to take advantage
of the larger PST file support Unicode offers?
Click to expand...

To expand on Milly's post, see this:
<http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.installation/msg/3cce3b0d581e15e8>
Also, see this: http://www.maclean.com/upstart/
 
Thanks! One final question--are there any performance gains or other
significant reasons why migrating Outlook.pst from ANSI to Unicode would be
preferred over simply creating multiple Archive.pst files as needed to keep
ANSI Outlook.pst under the 2GB limit?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com



Oliver Vukovics said:
Further information are also on this site:

"Convert a non-Unicode data file (.pst) to a Unicode data file (.pst)"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010383511033.aspx

--
Oliver Vukovics
Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Synchronize Outlook between Laptop and PC: Public SyncTool
http://www.publicshareware.com



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Create a new .pst file in the unicode format (file->new->outlook data
file->personal folders file) and then drag and drop items from the old to
the new. Once everything is moved over, close the old one.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mitch Tulloch asked:

| This particular user was migrated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003
| simply by copying the Outlook.pst file from the old machine to the
| new one, so I'm assuming the Outlook.pst file is still ANSI. Is there
| any way to migrate the PST file to Unicode format to take advantage
| of the larger PST file support Unicode offers?
|
|
| || Correct.
||
|| ||| So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook
||| would still work and not choke as long as each file is under the
||| 2GB limit?
|||
||| --
||| Cheers,
||| Mitch Tulloch
||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||| http://www.mtit.com
|||
|||
|||
||| |||| Hi Mitch,
||||
|||| every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.
||||
|||| If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every
|||| single PST file could have 2 GB.
||||
|||| Outlook.PST = 2 GB
|||| archive.pst = 2GB
||||
|||| Combined = 4 GB
||||
|||| --
|||| Oliver Vukovics
|||| Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
|||| Synchronize your Outlook: Public SyncTool
|||| http://www.publicshareware.com
||||
|||| ||||| Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size
||||| of the Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the
||||| Outlook.pst and Archive.pst files?
|||||
||||| --
||||| Cheers,
||||| Mitch Tulloch
||||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||||| http://www.mtit.com
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Hi Mitch,

this questions is a very difficult question:
are there any performance gains or other significant reasons why migrating
Outlook.pst from ANSI to Unicode
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some peolpe/users say, the newest software version must be better then the
"old" ones.

The general meaning about "old" Outlook PST files is: The are not safe, they
often go corrupted and the maximum size is not 2 GB, the make problems after
1.6GB.

I can not confirm this. We work with 15 central "old" shared PST files with
arround 1.5 - 1.8GB (for every PST) since three and a half years without any
problems.

The benefit of an Unicode PST is of course the higher capacity (20GB) and it
is a unicode PST , so a lot of users hope that this format is more stable
then the old PST format. It is easier to handle one PST file then 3,4 or 5
and it is easier to save one file then addditional files, but the
performance is the same. I prefere to use Outlook 2003 with Unicode PST
files, because this version was developed for Unicode PST files.

This is my personal meaning. All other users round the world could have
another meaning. ;-)

--
Oliver Vukovics
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Mitch Tulloch said:
Thanks! One final question--are there any performance gains or other
significant reasons why migrating Outlook.pst from ANSI to Unicode would
be preferred over simply creating multiple Archive.pst files as needed to
keep ANSI Outlook.pst under the 2GB limit?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://www.mtit.com



Oliver Vukovics said:
Further information are also on this site:

"Convert a non-Unicode data file (.pst) to a Unicode data file (.pst)"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010383511033.aspx

--
Oliver Vukovics
Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Synchronize Outlook between Laptop and PC: Public SyncTool
http://www.publicshareware.com



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Create a new .pst file in the unicode format (file->new->outlook data
file->personal folders file) and then drag and drop items from the old to
the new. Once everything is moved over, close the old one.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mitch Tulloch asked:

| This particular user was migrated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003
| simply by copying the Outlook.pst file from the old machine to the
| new one, so I'm assuming the Outlook.pst file is still ANSI. Is there
| any way to migrate the PST file to Unicode format to take advantage
| of the larger PST file support Unicode offers?
|
|
| || Correct.
||
|| ||| So if needed you could create additional archive files and Outlook
||| would still work and not choke as long as each file is under the
||| 2GB limit?
|||
||| --
||| Cheers,
||| Mitch Tulloch
||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||| http://www.mtit.com
|||
|||
|||
||| |||| Hi Mitch,
||||
|||| every PST file (Outlook 97-2002) can have 2GB.
||||
|||| If you have 2 PST file (Outlook.PST and an archive.pst) every
|||| single PST file could have 2 GB.
||||
|||| Outlook.PST = 2 GB
|||| archive.pst = 2GB
||||
|||| Combined = 4 GB
||||
|||| --
|||| Oliver Vukovics
|||| Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
|||| Synchronize your Outlook: Public SyncTool
|||| http://www.publicshareware.com
||||
|||| ||||| Does the 2 GB ANSI limit for Outlook PST apply only to the size
||||| of the Outlook.pst file, or to the combined size of the
||||| Outlook.pst and Archive.pst files?
|||||
||||| --
||||| Cheers,
||||| Mitch Tulloch
||||| [MVP--Windows Server]
||||| http://www.mtit.com
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Dear Brian:

I'm running Outlook 2003 on a computer with 2 Gig Ram.

I've got 3 other *.pst files that I used before. I'm now getting a
notice of "out of resources".

Any solutions that you can think of to allow opening of other
*.pst files so messages can be stored or retrieved from those?

Best Regards
John A Hansen
 
John A Hansen said:
I've got 3 other *.pst files that I used before. I'm now getting a
notice of "out of resources".
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Open Windows Explorer and enter %temp% in the Address field. Click Go. Do
you have a lot of files there? If so, delete them. Select them all
(Edit>Select All) and press Delete. If you get a message about a file being
open, it will be the first one in the list that remains on the screen. Use
CTRL-click to deselect it and press Delete again. COntinue until all the
files that can be deleted have been. Then open Internet Explorer and click
Tools>Internet Options and delete the temporary files using hte options
there. Next, open %Windir%\system32\spool\PRINTERS and delete what you find
there. See if this helps at all.
 
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