How many open PST files can Outlook handle?

[Guest]

I currently have created over 800 pst files within Outlook 2002 and am now
experiencing memory problems and not able to reliably send or receive emails
when connected to our exchange server. If I disconnect from our server and
reopen Outlook I can access and edit new emails and open any of the .pst
files. Tried upgrading to 2003 and that did not solve problem.

Note I originally created all of .pst files to avoid the 2 GB limit.

My IT guy and I are thinking that I have probably got to many .pst files
that Outlook is pointing to when it opens with the server connected. When I
disable my connection to the server that frees up enough resources to allow
access to all .pst files. If that is true then I guess I will have to combine
..pst files into a smaller number.

What to do you think?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I currently have created over 800 pst files within Outlook 2002 and
am now experiencing memory problems and not able to reliably send or
receive emails when connected to our exchange server. If I disconnect
from our server and reopen Outlook I can access and edit new emails
and open any of the .pst files. Tried upgrading to 2003 and that did
not solve problem.

Note I originally created all of .pst files to avoid the 2 GB limit.

Two Gigabytes times 800 PSTs is over one and one-half Terabytes. You
probably don't even have that much disk space. Why do you think you need
that many PSTs? Also, you have the option of creating Outlook 2003
Unicode-format PSTs now, whose maximum size starts at 20 GB and can be
increased 1,600-fold beyond that. Why not start converting those PSTs to
Unicode and combining them into fewer?