Hi,

My PST file is currently around 700Mbytes and I'm using the old 97-2002 format. It is on quite an
old PC (Pentium III, 512M RAM, 667MHz, XP pro). I am using Outlook 2003.

I know that the new PST format overcomes the 2Gbyte PST size limitation, although I am nowhere near
that yet. Are there any other advantages to the new format, such as general speed (especially for a
low-performance PC), speed when doing a search, robustness against corruptions, etc?

Thanks!

One of the important advantages is that it fully supports multibyte
character messages, such a Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc. This is for
many international businesses a must.

I am sure that there are more advantages, but I don't have any details.

Jon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My PST file is currently around 700Mbytes and I'm using the old 97-2002 format. It is on quite an
> old PC (Pentium III, 512M RAM, 667MHz, XP pro). I am using Outlook 2003.
>
> I know that the new PST format overcomes the 2Gbyte PST size limitation, although I am nowhere near
> that yet. Are there any other advantages to the new format, such as general speed (especially for a
> low-performance PC), speed when doing a search, robustness against corruptions, etc?
>
> Thanks!

Other than Unicode support, not really. If you don't correspond with people
using languages that use other character sets (like Chinese, Japanese,
Arabic, Russian etc) then Unicode is less important. If you will ever need
to open the pst in an older version of outlook, you'll need to use the old
pst format (that you use now).

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"Jon" <-> wrote in message news:#Pi4ID#(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> My PST file is currently around 700Mbytes and I'm using the old 97-2002
> format. It is on quite an
> old PC (Pentium III, 512M RAM, 667MHz, XP pro). I am using Outlook 2003.
>
> I know that the new PST format overcomes the 2Gbyte PST size limitation,
> although I am nowhere near
> that yet. Are there any other advantages to the new format, such as
> general speed (especially for a
> low-performance PC), speed when doing a search, robustness against
> corruptions, etc?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

OK thanks Diane, that's very helpful. I will stick to the old format.


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:BEBB90BA-E1E3-4CBA-B36E-(E-Mail Removed)...
Other than Unicode support, not really. If you don't correspond with people
using languages that use other character sets (like Chinese, Japanese,
Arabic, Russian etc) then Unicode is less important. If you will ever need
to open the pst in an older version of outlook, you'll need to use the old
pst format (that you use now).

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:dailytips-subscribe-(E-Mail Removed)

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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"Jon" <-> wrote in message news:#Pi4ID#(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> My PST file is currently around 700Mbytes and I'm using the old 97-2002
> format. It is on quite an
> old PC (Pentium III, 512M RAM, 667MHz, XP pro). I am using Outlook 2003.
>
> I know that the new PST format overcomes the 2Gbyte PST size limitation,
> although I am nowhere near
> that yet. Are there any other advantages to the new format, such as
> general speed (especially for a
> low-performance PC), speed when doing a search, robustness against
> corruptions, etc?
>
> Thanks!
>
>