OL2003 & Attachments

[Guest]

I have a colleague who has asked this question (we are using OL2003 with
Exchange 2003):

"I, like many staff, have run into problems because my Outlook file has
reached maximum size.
In an endeavour to reduce it, I have been deleting attachments from
messages, and copying them into appropriate directories on the Network.
However, I have noticed that in this version of Outlook there is then no
record of what the attached file was (or even that there was an attachment),
whereas I'm sure that with a previous version the file name was left in the
message with "removed" appended to it."

Any ideas/suggestions gratefully accepted,
Amanda

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, that never has been the case. He/she probably used an add-in that
manages attachments for that
http://www.howto-outlook.com/addins.htm

When he/she uses an Outlook 2003 formatted pst-file I don't think he/she
will reach the limit anytime soon as the limit is 20GB. Outlook 97-2002
formatted pst-files have a limit of 2GB.

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

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

 

[Pat Willener]

You should create a new Outlook 2003 PST file, then copy the data from
the old file to the new. OL2003 PST files have practically no size limit.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the prompt responses - I'll pass these back to the user