File Storage Limits for OE6

[Kevin]

Ron,
Thanks for your suggestion. After I posted to this group I did find one on
Outlook Express that I posted to. Surprisingly this group had more answers
and some better advise. If you reread my post my issue is with OE6 in the
newsgroups as opposed to Outlook for email.
Regards,
Kevin

 

[Kevin]

Thank you for the information about the 2gig limit for Outlook files.
Kevin

 

[Kevin]

I apologise for the confusion in my post but my question pertains to using
OE6 specifically for downloading files in the Usenet. I use Outlook 2003 for
my email client.
My question has been answered in this thread and I thank all the good people
here.
Regards,
Kevin

 

[Kevin]

Richard,
The computer is a new whitebox with Windows XP Media Edition and is
formatted in NTFS with a 250 gig HDD. I dumped FAT in 1998 when I moved from
Win95 to WinNT4 and started using NTFS.
Regards,
Kevin

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:08:57 -0400, "Richard Urban [MVP]"

Good catch. His hard drive may be formatted as fat16 from Win95/98 days.

Ah, with FAT16, the problem would not arise - the whole *volume* can't
be over 2G in Win9x, so there's no possibility of creating a single
file over 2G under such circumstances.

FAT32's got no upper limit blues that apply in 2005 when it comes to
volume size, but a single file (such as a .PST) can't be other 2G or
4G. I'm fudging that because I see different reports, and also I
suspect that some apps may get different mileage (e.g. unsigned
addressing may be OK to 4G but signed addressing only OK to 2G)

Another post mentioned an internal Outlook issue that limits .PST to
2G, irrespective of whether it's on FAT32 or NTFS.

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