Archived files in 2003 or 2007

[Joe Medford]

In Office 2003 Archived files is limited to 2G, I was woundering if this
could be changed in 2003 of 2007.

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

In Office 2003 Archived files is limited to 2G, I was woundering if
this could be changed in 2003 of 2007.

No need to ask more than once.

In Office 2003 (i.e, Outlook 2003) and in Office 2007, Outlook's archives,
being PSTs have the same limit as any other PST, namely a default maximum of
20GB, which can be expanded. Office XP and earlier, however, are limited to
2GB.

 

[Guest]

Sorry about the multiple posts, the message did not show up in Windows Mail.
A customer of mine has Office 2003, and his archives stop at 2G . When it
gets to the 2G size it creates another archive, any idea why this would
happen then? I believe he may be using exchange sever with Outlook.
Thanks

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Sorry about the multiple posts, the message did not show up in
Windows Mail. A customer of mine has Office 2003, and his archives
stop at 2G . When it gets to the 2G size it creates another archive,
any idea why this would happen then? I believe he may be using
exchange sever with Outlook.

Well, 2k3 and 2k7 both can create non-unicode psts which are limited to 2GB,
but I don't see how autoarchive would use a non-unicode pst by default,
unless it goes by the type of the current archive to determine the type of
the new archive.

There can also be a reg entry put into place to limit the size of a unicode
pst: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sorry about the multiple posts, the message did not show up in
Windows Mail. A customer of mine has Office 2003, and his archives
stop at 2G . When it gets to the 2G size it creates another archive,
any idea why this would happen then? I believe he may be using
exchange sever with Outlook.

Perhaps this is an issue of him having had an ANSI format archive to start,
but I've never seen Outlook create a new one automatically.

If this happened to me, I'd deliberately create a new PST, making sure it's
a Unicode PST, then designate it to be the archive PST. I'd be very
surprised if the problem recurred.