.pst question, why does a .pst limit to 2gig

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bob

from reading on the board, the pst stops working well after the 2G limit ,
why is this and am I understanding this correcttly??? what do you do if you
have tons of info???
 
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SgtRich

from reading on the board, the pst stops working well after the 2G limit ,
why is this and am I understanding this correcttly??? what do you do if you
have tons of info???
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Actually, many people have experienced difficulties when their .pst files
get to about the 1.2GB size. As to why, it is just a limitation of the way
the program was written up until Outlook 2003 . Outlook 2003 raises the 2GB
maximum limit by at least ten times.

If you cannot update to Outlook 2003, my suggestion would be to create .pst
files that consist of a year's worth of data. If even that is too much,
create .pst files to contain X amount of months worth of data. In other
words, try to break your data up into manageable sections, so that it can be
accessed properly.
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Brian Tillman

bob said:
from reading on the board, the pst stops working well after the 2G
limit , why is this and am I understanding this correcttly???
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Because the data item that controls access to the PST is limited to a 32 bit
signed integer. Also, FAT file system internals couldn't handle more than
that. With NTFS, that issue disappears, so Microsoft updated Outlook to
make use of the additional file system capabilities.
 
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