corrupt pst file under 2 Gig

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

I've had five people's pst files become corrupt in the last couple months.
I've fixed them by restoring them from backup. I haven't looked at each
one's file size, but the most recent currupted one was only 750,000 KB.
That's what makes me think it's corrupting for a different reason other than
an oversized pst file. Any other ideas of what could be causing this?
 
Dear "Bewildered IT girl",
Microsoft folders can be up to 2TB, but very often problems start popping up
once folders get above 500GB. Surprised at your stats! Encourage your people
to periodically clean up their archives and compact by right clicking the PST
folder, choose Properties, click the Advanced button, then click Compact now.
Compacting seems to help prevent corruption. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Anne Marie
 
Did you mean to type,"once folders get above 500 MB" instead of 500 GB? The
currupted file I checked was less than a Gig.
 
Checked them with scanpst.exe already?
Are these files located on a network share? Then they might have become
corrupted by unexpected loss of network (forcing a computer shutdown by
holding the Power button). Note that Microsoft doesn't recommend or support
storing pst-files on a network share.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003
 
Hi "Bewildered IT girl",

My typing error. I looked it up for you. for version 97 -2002, .pst (and the
..ost) files have a 2 gigabyte (GB) size limitation. I did not know that
"Microsoft doesn't recommend or support storing pst-files on a network share"
postecd by Roady, MVP.

I still highly recommend "compact".
Cheers,
Annie
 
"Hi Roady",
This is very good info. Is there a Microsoft KB about storing PSTs on
network share? Is the scanpst.exe the same as the Help, Detect & Repair tool?
Thank you.
Annie

Roady said:
Checked them with scanpst.exe already?
Are these files located on a network share? Then they might have become
corrupted by unexpected loss of network (forcing a computer shutdown by
holding the Power button). Note that Microsoft doesn't recommend or support
storing pst-files on a network share.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

-----
Bewildered IT girl said:
I've had five people's pst files become corrupt in the last couple months.
I've fixed them by restoring them from backup. I haven't looked at each
one's file size, but the most recent currupted one was only 750,000 KB.
That's what makes me think it's corrupting for a different reason other
than
an oversized pst file. Any other ideas of what could be causing this?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Bewildered IT girl said:
I've had five people's pst files become corrupt in the last couple
months. I've fixed them by restoring them from backup. I haven't
looked at each one's file size, but the most recent currupted one was
only 750,000 KB. That's what makes me think it's corrupting for a
different reason other than an oversized pst file. Any other ideas
of what could be causing this?
Click to expand...

Are the PSTs local to the workstations or hosted on network shares?
 
Bewildered IT girl said:
Did you mean to type,"once folders get above 500 MB" instead of 500
GB? The currupted file I checked was less than a Gig.
Click to expand...

Annie didn't know what she was typing.
 
In each case, the pst file that became corrupt was on the user's pc in their
My Documents folder, not on the server. The reason we had them do that in the
first place was to not take up so much space on the server when they saved
their mail. Now, it seems to have backfired and bit us in the wazoo.
 
Back
Top