File Storage Limits for OE6

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I am using Outlook Express 6 in Windows XP Pro and have been surfing the
newsgroups. I do not use OE6 for mail since I have Office 2003 Professional
Enterprise with Outlook for that function. After a while I get a message
that Outlook has encountered an error and must close. It will not download
anything further. If I go into to Tools/Options/Maintenance/Cleanup I see
that that the Total size is listed as 1.99GB. Is this a default limit and
can it be increased? How?
Thanks for the information.
Kevin
 
If there is a size limit, I don't know what it is. I am now at 42.4 MB and
climbing.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
For Outlook, it's a good idea to "Frequently" copy the .Pst to some
backup location. Also, Office provides a tool ScanPst.Exe that is
used to examine the Personal folder file and fix any inconsistencies
found. ScanPST doesn't have an icon - you have to look for it.
As to size, I wouldn't drag around that much data. I'm sure over
time that Outlook has improved (I use Office XP). However, back
in my Corporate IT Drone days one of our biggest issues was all
the .PSTs crammed full of the Daily Dilbert and other really vital
company business mailings. I would probably export some of the
data to a secondary Personal Folder and include it in your profile.
 
The OP is talking about Oe not OL.

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Peter

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""I do not use OE6 for mail since I have Office 2003""
""...with Outlook for that function""


The OP is talking about Oe not OL.
 
My Bad. Sorry my error . Not awake yet :o))

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Peter

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The OP is talking about Oe not OL.

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Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
 
No problem, It's easy to mistake/mix-up Outlook & Outlook
Express. Correcting a Correction is just newsgroup "Fair Play".

My Bad. Sorry my error . Not awake yet :o))

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Peter

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The OP is talking about Oe not OL.
 
There is no reason to increase the size limit.
You need to do some maintenance.
Do not let each folder get over 100 MG.
File, Work Offline, File, Folder, Compact All Folders.
Periodically remove old messages, then compact the folders.
I use a message rule to delete messages over 10 days old.
The rule has to be manually applied. I point to the server and then all
newsgroups under that server have the rule applied.
Compact after applying the rule.
 
This is mostly from my participation in the news groups. (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
Kevin said:
I am using Outlook Express 6 in Windows XP Pro and have been surfing the
newsgroups. I do not use OE6 for mail since I have Office 2003 Professional
Enterprise with Outlook for that function. After a while I get a message
that Outlook has encountered an error and must close. It will not download
anything further. If I go into to Tools/Options/Maintenance/Cleanup I see
that that the Total size is listed as 1.99GB. Is this a default limit and
can it be increased? How?
Thanks for the information.
Kevin
Click to expand...

You may want to post in an Office Outlook newsgroup.

As I recall, the maximum size of an Outlook pst file is 2Gb in Outlook 2003.
In Outlook 2003, the pst file can be compacted. To do so, go to File, Data
File Management, select the file you want to compact, click on Settings.

The Microsoft Knowledge base has a number of articles on pst size including
this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832925


Don
 
I've re-read this several times and think I've misinterpreted it.

If I understand this 100%, he uses Outlook for mail and OE
for newsgroups. Based on the description of the path to the
cleanup sounds like OE but he distinctly says "Outlook". The
path to mailbox maintenance in Outlook is different. So I think
he's describing a Newsgroup.dbx that is 1.99 Gigabytes in size.
However, I've not seen a .dbx ever reach anything near that
total size. Anyway it's definitely a post where the transposition
of terms can be read a number of ways.
 
R. McCarty said:
So I think
he's describing a Newsgroup.dbx that is 1.99 Gigabytes in size.
However, I've not seen a .dbx ever reach anything near that
total size.
Click to expand...

Maybe it's a binary newsgroup.

Alias
 
It is not easy for me because I always spot it and I know the difference. With the exception when I sleep only 2 hrs. I mistake my wife also for ????????????? at these times. lol
 
I am using Outlook Express 6 in Windows XP Pro and have been surfing the
newsgroups. I do not use OE6 for mail since I have Office 2003 Professional
Enterprise with Outlook for that function. After a while I get a message
that Outlook has encountered an error and must close. It will not download
anything further. If I go into to Tools/Options/Maintenance/Cleanup I see
that that the Total size is listed as 1.99GB. Is this a default limit and
can it be increased? How?
Click to expand...

FAT32 has a limit of 2G or 4G per file, and it looks like you ran into
that. This hits Outlook harder than OE, given that while OE bloats
each mailbox with hidden attachments, Outlook does all that plus
stores all the mailboxes (and more besides) in one huge .PST

It's probably possible to come up with a worse storage model, but if
so, I hope I never have to look at it.
 
Good catch. His hard drive may be formatted as fat16 from Win95/98 days.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
I am using a computer with Windows XP Media on it and the file system is
NTFS not FAT or FAT 32. I do appreciate your response.
Kevin
 
Ron,
Specifically I am in the alt.bionaries.warez.ibm-pc.ms-beta newsgroup to
download a trial copy of Vista Beta 1. This is multipart post with well over
1000 ~300kb pieces that must be combined and decoded. It is posted as 68
parts with most of the parts comprising 149 files that must be combined. As
I download I make partial compilations of 10 parts and save these to My
Documents for later decoding by yEnc32 decoder. Because of the enormous size
of this total file I do have to go into maintenance to delete downloaded
message bodies to make room in the dbx file to continue to download this
program.
I am unclear about your suggestion to create folders unless you are
suggesting using different terms what I am already doing with these posts
using combine and decode and then 'save as' into another file location
altogether different that in OE6's storage folder.
Thanks,
Kevin
 

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