Limit # messages in Folder?

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Is there a limit in Outlook 2003 as to the number of messages that can
reside in a folder? Could there be a 32,000 limit? With or without Unicode
format?
 
Al said:
Is there a limit in Outlook 2003 as to the number of messages that can
reside in a folder? Could there be a 32,000 limit? With or without Unicode
format?
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is that a PST folder or a mail server folder?
if you have that many messages in a folder...I hope it's on a server.
anything over a few hundred should be on a server.
the PST size limit is 2GB
 
over a few hundred on a server

No way! Then you might as well take Outlook off the market if it can't
handle more then a few hundred. Though I have just about had it with
Outlook. Have a 1.7 GB PST file in Outlook 2002. Converted it to a Unicode
in Outlook 2003 by importing it. However Scanpst constantly can not
complete a run, giving an error. Though all the data seems ok in the new
outlook.pst. Don't know why scanpst.exe can not finish. I do have 32000
emails in a folder is why I asked whether that is an issue.
 
A Unicode pst in outlook 2003 can support an unlimited number of items per
folder, with a practical pst size limit of some 20 GB.

An ANSI pst has a limit of 2 GB and approx 65,000 items per folder.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
 
Unicode is unlimited - ANSI (the old format) has a limit of ~65,000.

What problems are you experiencing?
 
Hi Diane, thanks so much for asking.

I am having major problems using Scanpst.exe and am wondering if others have
experienced similar situations.

I have an outlook.pst file of 1.7GByte which I had running in Outlook 2002.
I just upgraded to Outlook 2003 and created a Unicode PST file. I imported
all the data. Some of the larger file folders did not convert all the data.
For example some folders that had 15,000 messages in them only converted
about 5000. Not sure if there was a corrupted email in there which messes
up the whole file. Funny thing though it appears that I can view all of
them in the older PST file.

Even worse I can not run scanpst.exe on either file, the old one or the
newer Unicode file. Most of the time it will crash in Phase 7 out of 8. I
have even tried deleting some of the folders that did not get fully
converted over. Both PST files I can use in Outlook and all the folders do
come up and are viewable. Is scanpst.exe that bad of a utility? What is
going on, and ideas?

Appreciate any ideas since this has been a big problem the past few days and
I am running out of solutions. Wish Microsoft would not of made the one big
PST file, nothing but headaches.

For the past 2 days I have been importing, converting, deleting bad folders
and trying again but what ever I do Scanpst.exe will not run through. There
must be some corruption in there??

Thanks, Al
 
I would close Outlook, rename the current pst and make a copy of the old
pst. open outlook and when it whines, let it make a new pst. Open the old
pst's using file, open, outlook data file. Drag items (use Move to keep from
breaking links) from the old pst if you need them in the new one, otherwise
work with multiple psts in the profile.

As for scanpst, double check the version number if you upgraded from an
older version of office, just to be sure you are using the right one. Also,
see http://www.slipstick.com/problems/scanpst.htm
 
Al Franz said:
I have an outlook.pst file of 1.7GByte which I had running in Outlook
2002. I just upgraded to Outlook 2003 and created a Unicode PST file.
I imported all the data. Some of the larger file folders did not
convert all the data.
Click to expand...

You shouldn't be importing old PSTs. Simply open them with
File>Open>Outlook Data File. Then, if you wish to move the data to the new
format PST, do so with drag-and-drop.
 
Diane,

Well I tried running Scandisk 3 times and even ran Diskeeper Fragmentation
tool. I can open up my old 1.7 GByte PST file and the new Unicode format
file in Outlook 2003. But when I run ScanPST I get the error message in
Phase 7 of 8....

"An error has occured which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have
been made to the scanned file."

Any other ideas. The ScanPST.exe file I have is dated 7-14-2003, which I
believe must of been installed with Office 2003, I would think that is the
latest.

Maybe I should run scandisk a few more times but not sure if it will
matter??? Appreciate your help, very frustrating as you can imagine.

--Al
 

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