One of the office users (XP Pro, Outlook 2000) let their pst file run
over the 2g limit.
I tried the repair & crop, tried opening with Outlook 2003 & no luck,
although Outlook 2003 says to delete some items, which would be fine
but I've got to be able to open it first (kinda like 'no keyboard
present, press F8 to continue').
I am going to bite the bullet & buy one of the recovery programs out
there & am looking for advice and/or suggections, as most of these
programs run $150 & up, & I'd prefer to buy only one & have it work!
Any suggestions based on experience?

You often have to run the crop tool several times, also run scanpst.exe
after each crop
The early version pst can baulk at 1.6gb

I've no experience with recovery apps, but I believe there are companies
that will recover for you rather than you using the tools. Dont forget to
work on a copy of the pst

"Crash Fistfight" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> One of the office users (XP Pro, Outlook 2000) let their pst file run
> over the 2g limit.
> I tried the repair & crop, tried opening with Outlook 2003 & no luck,
> although Outlook 2003 says to delete some items, which would be fine
> but I've got to be able to open it first (kinda like 'no keyboard
> present, press F8 to continue').
> I am going to bite the bullet & buy one of the recovery programs out
> there & am looking for advice and/or suggections, as most of these
> programs run $150 & up, & I'd prefer to buy only one & have it work!
> Any suggestions based on experience?
>

Crash Fistfight,

Some thoughts:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832925

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

One hopes that you backed up your file before you started all of this.

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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> You often have to run the crop tool several times, also run scanpst.exe
> after each crop
> The early version pst can baulk at 1.6gb
>
> I've no experience with recovery apps, but I believe there are companies
> that will recover for you rather than you using the tools. Dont forget to
> work on a copy of the pst
>
> "Crash Fistfight" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> One of the office users (XP Pro, Outlook 2000) let their pst file run
>> over the 2g limit.
>> I tried the repair & crop, tried opening with Outlook 2003 & no luck,
>> although Outlook 2003 says to delete some items, which would be fine
>> but I've got to be able to open it first (kinda like 'no keyboard
>> present, press F8 to continue').
>> I am going to bite the bullet & buy one of the recovery programs out
>> there & am looking for advice and/or suggections, as most of these
>> programs run $150 & up, & I'd prefer to buy only one & have it work!
>> Any suggestions based on experience?
>>
>
>