OL2002: Can effects of multiple mapped PSTs to Profile cause HANG?

[Guest]

Nowhere do I find warnings about the effects of mapping multiple PSTs to a single Outlook Profile. That could mean that there are no limits; OR that it's so obvious that it's not worth mentioning ... I'm inquiring, just the same

I'm troubleshooting a problem a user has copying Exchange messages from our E5.5-SP4/W2K-SP3 server to her PST. Frequently it hangs or returns the " ...application has stopped responding" message. I have not checked the integrity of her PSTs yet and realize that I have a lot of things to check out. But something strikes me as unusual and I just wanted to run it by you folks. This user has 13 PSTs mapped to her profile and the total file size exceeds 4.1GB. One of the PSTs is 1.3GB

I know that when Outlook is launched, any mapped PSTs are opened. I'm wondering if this could cause a condition that exceeds the user's process limitation (i.e. cache, buffers, etc) that results in a hung process or non-responding application

Thoughts? Suggestion

Thanks

--BruceM

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

There's no known issue with this that I recall. However, many people seem to
find the performance of large .pst files leaves something to be desired. She
might be a good candidate for upgrading to Outlook 2003 and creating .pst
files in the new format that allows for much larger files. She could even
consolidate into a single file.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Nowhere do I find warnings about the effects of mapping multiple PSTs to a

single Outlook Profile. That could mean that there are no limits; OR that
it's so obvious that it's not worth mentioning ... I'm inquiring, just the
same.

I'm troubleshooting a problem a user has copying Exchange messages from

our E5.5-SP4/W2K-SP3 server to her PST. Frequently it hangs or returns the
" ...application has stopped responding" message. I have not checked the
integrity of her PSTs yet and realize that I have a lot of things to check
out. But something strikes me as unusual and I just wanted to run it by
you folks. This user has 13 PSTs mapped to her profile and the total file
size exceeds 4.1GB. One of the PSTs is 1.3GB.

I know that when Outlook is launched, any mapped PSTs are opened. I'm

wondering if this could cause a condition that exceeds the user's process
limitation (i.e. cache, buffers, etc) that results in a hung process or
non-responding application?