Delete specific folders from >2Gb .PST-File

[Daniel A. J. Sokolov]

My archive-.pst has grown >2GB, although I have installed the latest Service
Release - which should prevent just that. Now, Outlook 2000 won't open the
file. :-(( scanpst.exe as well refuses to anything with it.

However, there is a lot of data in the file I don't really need, like the
Journal, Kalender, Notes, To-Do-List, etc. Is there a way to delete these
folders from the .pst-file? Or is there a way to run a compression on the
file to reduce it's size under 2 GB? Or is there a way to extract just all
e-mails from the .pst-file?

I just hate the idea to run 2gb152.exe and just delete *any* 100 MB. Some
important data may be lost!

BR
Daniel AJ

 

[Brian Tillman]

My archive-.pst has grown >2GB, although I have installed the latest
Service Release - which should prevent just that. Now, Outlook 2000
won't open the file. :-(( scanpst.exe as well refuses to anything
with it.
However, there is a lot of data in the file I don't really need, like
the Journal, Kalender, Notes, To-Do-List, etc. Is there a way to
delete these folders from the .pst-file? Or is there a way to run a
compression on the file to reduce it's size under 2 GB? Or is there a
way to extract just all e-mails from the .pst-file?

I just hate the idea to run 2gb152.exe and just delete *any* 100 MB.
Some important data may be lost!

You may hate it, but, aside from a possible commercial tool, you have no
choice but to trim some data to get it under the limit before trying to
repair it. 2gb152.exe may not be the only tool to do that. See
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm