how do I map many Personal Folders in Outlook 2003

[Guest]

I have amassed on my PC quite a few Personal Folders of 600 MBytes or less
(well under the Outlook 2000 limit - I was bitten once). I just migrated to
Outlook 2003. In Tools / Options / Mail Setup / Data Files, I can't add more
than about 18 .psts to my Outlook Folders List before I get "Out of Memory or
Resources" error. Furthermore, for the .psts that I do add, after I expand a
few of them Outlook tells me, for all subsequent attempts, "Unable to expand
the folder. The set of folders could not be opened." When I close Outlook
2003 and restart it, and expand the folders in a different order, the problem
folders expand just fine, and the rest don't. Any ideas? I am running a
Dell Precision 370 with 2 GIG of RAM; Windows XP. Thanks, Dan.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You might want to merge a few of them together. I would think that more than
10 gets a bit unwieldly after a while. Also, do you need them all open at
the same time?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response, Vince. But if it's the total size of the files
that's causing the problem, that wouldn't help. I was hoping someone would
come up with a setting to allocate more resources to handle these problems,
since Outlook 2000 had no problems with these files on an older, smaller
machine.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

OL2003 is better at handling larger PST files. That's why I brought it up.