Is there a setting within Outlook 2003 that will allow me to turn off
Outlook "Fixing" these PST files. Our COO is telling me that he gets this
error message fairly often and wants it to go away. Granted, the PST files
are pretty big (about 1.5 gb), I would prefer to tell Outlook when to check
their integrity.

As to why they are so big, all of our VP's would be lost without the ability
to view email as far back as the beginning of time of they had it their way.
It is how they maintain their accountability. I am having a heck of a time
explaining to them why they should pursue other avenues but they all feel
like email servers should be able to handle email boxes of any size. If any
of you have ideas or pointers to documents to help explain why email
management is a good thing, please be sure to pass that along.

"Rick Csucsai" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is there a setting within Outlook 2003 that will allow me to turn off
> Outlook "Fixing" these PST files. Our COO is telling me that he gets this
> error message fairly often and wants it to go away. Granted, the PST files
> are pretty big (about 1.5 gb), I would prefer to tell Outlook when to
check
> their integrity.
>
> As to why they are so big, all of our VP's would be lost without the
ability
> to view email as far back as the beginning of time of they had it their
way.
> It is how they maintain their accountability. I am having a heck of a time
> explaining to them why they should pursue other avenues but they all feel
> like email servers should be able to handle email boxes of any size. If
any
> of you have ideas or pointers to documents to help explain why email
> management is a good thing, please be sure to pass that along.
>
>

Here is a good breakdown on why you should manage the size of your pst
files. Also there is a 2 gig limit to .pst files and nasty things start
happening when you surpass this.

http://www.caelo.com/kb/T1116.php

Rick Csucsai <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Is there a setting within Outlook 2003 that will allow me to turn off
> Outlook "Fixing" these PST files. Our COO is telling me that he gets
> this error message fairly often and wants it to go away. Granted, the
> PST files are pretty big (about 1.5 gb), I would prefer to tell
> Outlook when to check their integrity.

If he's getting that message when Outlook starts, it's because he's logging
out without properly closing Outlook, either willfully or inadvertently.
SOme reasons why Outlook may nt close properly can be found here:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm
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Brian Tillman