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Outlook 2000 -pst file over 2gb
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Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help, yesterday my outlook 2000 wouldnt open up any of my contacts, emails , tasks etc , having done some research, I now realise that this is because my outlook.pst file has exceeded the 2gb limit.. but I cant work out how to fix it without losing any information............ please can you help me???
I wonder if anyone can help, yesterday my outlook 2000 wouldnt open up any of my contacts, emails , tasks etc , having done some research, I now realise that this is because my outlook.pst file has exceeded the 2gb limit.. but I cant work out how to fix it without losing any information............ please can you help me???
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Have a look for a file call scanpst.exe on your machine, scan the pst with it and it should repair it. Once repaired create another PST and copy about half the data out of this pst into a new one. Once that is done goto your options, find the personal folder and compact it. This is going to take you a long time though. If this is all too much effort you might have to revert to an older pst that is less than 2GB0
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Thanks , I can do the scanpst bit, but once I have done that, how do I copy part of the outlook.pst to a new file????0
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You create the new pst in outlook then you just drag and drop the folders over, it will probably appear to hang and will probably take a long time but it will be working away.0
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You cannot do that with scanpst. You first need to download a tool to truncate the pst file so that it's less than 2GBs. You will almost definately lose data from the pst file.
Have a look here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296088
Russ- Google is your friend, use it :rolleyes:0 -
Thanks .. will try that0
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Just a thought, if I went out and bought Outlook 2007 , would that solve my problems , would I be able to open the file then>???0
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Outlook 2007 has a limit of 20GBs, but without trying it I can't say whether it will open the pst file as it is. You may still need to run those tools on it first.- Google is your friend, use it :rolleyes:0
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As the .pst is a database file it fills up with white space aswell which when defragmented deflates the file, if you upgrade to outlook 2003 this is not so much of a problem, you can use upto 16GB. Try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.0
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So if I upgrade to 2003 - will I be able to open the file Proliant?0
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Try this tool first http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b33b1dff-6f50-411d-bbdf-82019dda602e&displaylang=enSince when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.0
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