PST File Diff???

[Tim_S]

What is the difference in the Office 2003 .pst file and
the older XP (and below) .pst file? I Noticed a choice
when connecting a .pst file as in which version you want
to use. I had a XP version .pst file and upon
installation of 2k3, I lost a folder and the file become
corrupt. Had to run scan.pst against it to recover.

If they are considerable diff between xp and 2k3 version
of the .pst, is there a scanpst.exe file version for 2k3?

thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The Outlook 2003 file supports Unicode, is effectively unlimited in size,
and is not backwards compatible with earlier versions of Outlook. Outlook
2003 installs an updated version of Scanpst.exe

 

[Brian Tillman]

If they are considerable diff between xp and 2k3 version
of the .pst, is there a scanpst.exe file version for 2k3?

Sue was correct, but didn't answer the question you didn't ask. You should
be able to use the old-style ANSI format PST with Outlook 2003 without
corruption. It is not normal for OL 2003 to ruin an ANSI PST.