UNICODE PST ?

[EMERY_BILL]

is this new and improved unlimited file size unicode pst file created
by default or do you have to specify that you want it when the pst is
created ?

 

[Gordon]

is this new and improved unlimited file size unicode pst file created
by default or do you have to specify that you want it when the pst is
created ?

In Outlook 2003, it is the default AFAIK......

 

[EMERY_BILL]

thanks for the reply, how do i tell if a pst is unicode or ansi ?

 

[Brian Tillman]

thanks for the reply, how do i tell if a pst is unicode or ansi ?

In Outlook, right-click its root in the Folder List view and choose
Properties. CLick Advanced. If the Format field contains "97-2002", it's
the old format. It not, it's the new.

 

[EMERY_BILL]

is there any reason , after importing an ansi pst file, that it would
convert it to the old ansi format ?

 

[Brian Tillman]

is there any reason , after importing an ansi pst file, that it would
convert it to the old ansi format ?

In order to import a PST, you must have a PST open to begin with to act as
the destination of the import. That PST's format will not change. If you
import a Unicode PST into an ANSI PST, if there is no Unicode data in the
Unicode PST, I suspect it would import and the destination PST, since it
started as an ANSI PST would remain an ANSI PST.

That said, why would you ever want to import a PST. Just open it with
File>Open>Outlook Data File.

 

[EMERY_BILL]

let me tell the whole story, have a customer who called and reported
that he could no longer send and receive email because he was getting
an error message that the folder was too large. i found a backup as of
3/29 of the pst that had not yet grown to the maximum size. i then
created a new and improved email profile using the new and improved
outlook 2003 and imported the old pst file into the new and improved
one.
got the same error, file has grown to it's maximum etc. after outlook
re downloaded all messages (in true pop3 fashion).
the only thing i can figure is that , when i created the new email
profile, there must have been an outlook.pst file already that was in
the old format.
interestingly enough, the new and improved didnt write over it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

let me tell the whole story, have a customer who called and reported
that he could no longer send and receive email because he was getting
an error message that the folder was too large. i found a backup as of
3/29 of the pst that had not yet grown to the maximum size. i then
created a new and improved email profile using the new and improved
outlook 2003 and imported the old pst file into the new and improved
one.
got the same error, file has grown to it's maximum etc. after outlook
re downloaded all messages (in true pop3 fashion).
the only thing i can figure is that , when i created the new email
profile, there must have been an outlook.pst file already that was in
the old format.
interestingly enough, the new and improved didnt write over it.

When you create a new mail profile, unless you specifcally add a pointer to
a data file, I don't think Outlook goes out looking for one.

At any rate, if you want to convert an ANSI PST to a Unicode one, see this:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.general/msg/fe4f6aecf94baeff?dmode=source

 

[EMERY_BILL]

ill try your suggestion on converting the old pst to the new rather
than importing. im suspicious that the importing may have changed it -
i dont know all i know is if i click on the new pst it shows 97-2002
just like the old ones did. maybe when i created the new email profile
it defaulted to outlook.pst and i just clicked ok.
not sure what i did wrong-but ill try your method of copyijng and
pasting and then just get rid of the old one.

 

[EMERY_BILL]

thanx for your help, it worked. they now have the new and improved pst
file. cant believe that m$ thought that a business could run on a 2 gb
limit file till 2003.
as i sit here watching the light on my harddrive go solid red with
activity and the cpu that used to be big enough for a mainframe
computer goto 100% just sitting here, im glad that soon ill be able to
retire from this.
let me know if anyone wants an interupt driven terminal emulation
program written in assembler 1.1

thanx again

 

[Brian Tillman]

thanx for your help, it worked. they now have the new and improved pst
file. cant believe that m$ thought that a business could run on a 2 gb
limit file till 2003.

They didn't. When PSTs were designed, the NTFS file system didn't exist
and the largest file ANY FAT volume could hold was in the single GB range.

 

[EMERY_BILL]

the 2gh limit went away long before 2003. fat32 supported more than
that. win95b came out in 95 !!
however, i will say that ive never ran into this before, most folks
dont have a 2gb pst file. this was a recuiter that saves a lot of
resume attachments.

 

[Brian Tillman]

the 2gh limit went away long before 2003. fat32 supported more than
that. win95b came out in 95 !!

Maximum file size in FAT32 was 4 GB.