how much data can outlook 2002 handle

T

tomw

I've been told that outlook gets bonkers when the data file nears 2 gig and
I've been having trouble with it taking a long time to open emails once I
click on them.
i have 1.85 gig in the pst Can anyone help.
 
B

Brian Tillman

tomw said:
I've been told that outlook gets bonkers when the data file nears 2
gig and I've been having trouble with it taking a long time to open
emails once I click on them.
i have 1.85 gig in the pst Can anyone help.
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You're dangerously close to the limit. I wouldn't trust ther PST past 1.5
GB. Split your PST into multiple PSTs or archive your older data.
 
D

DL

Archive mail now! (Substantial amount - by date)
Then compact
Note an Archive file is also subject to same size restrictions
Versions earlier than 2003 (Unicode format) can baulk from 1.6gb and fail at
2gb
 
T

tomw

Thank you both for your help. That did it. I had been deleting and
archiving, but hadn't compressed. Pst now down to 221m
 
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