Outlook 2000 PST

[Parvardigar]

I'm having problems with (Windows XP with Office 2000) Outlook's PSB
at 2.1GB. Outlook opens fine however sending large documents with
attachments Outlook crashed. I used task manager to end Outlook.

I learned through Google that I have exceeded the 2GB pst limit. Can I
upgrade / install Office XP Small Business to correct the 2GB limit? I
do have that xp office disk. I need to work in Outlook with Pst files
larger than 2GB. Let me know. Thanks

 

[Alias]

I'm having problems with (Windows XP with Office 2000) Outlook's PSB
at 2.1GB. Outlook opens fine however sending large documents with
attachments Outlook crashed. I used task manager to end Outlook.

I learned through Google that I have exceeded the 2GB pst limit. Can I
upgrade / install Office XP Small Business to correct the 2GB limit? I
do have that xp office disk. I need to work in Outlook with Pst files
larger than 2GB. Let me know. Thanks

Office XP has the same limitations. 03 and 07 don't. You better reduce
your .pst size soon because if you don't, you will be sorry. Updating
won't work because when you update to 03 or 07, you will still have the
old style .pst file. It would be best to disconnect the .pst file for
Outlook and move it somewhere else. Then when you install 03 o 07, you
can open it and move your messages, calendar, etc. to the new .pst file
that has a 20 GB limit. I would also recommend that after you install
03, disconnect the new .pst file and put it in another partition other
than "C". When you open Outlook, it will bitch that it doesn't have a
..pst file and offer a way to browse to the moved .pst file and hook up
to it. Then open (File/Open/Personal Data File) the 2000 .pst file and
move your messages to the new one.

Alias

 

[Parvardigar]

Office XP has the same limitations. 03 and 07 don't. You better reduce
your .pst size soon because if you don't, you will be sorry. Updating
won't work because when you update to 03 or 07, you will still have the
old style .pst file. It would be best to disconnect the .pst file for
Outlook and move it somewhere else. Then when you install 03 o 07, you
can open it and move your messages, calendar, etc. to the new .pst file
that has a 20 GB limit. I would also recommend that after you install
03, disconnect the new .pst file and put it in another partition other
than "C". When you open Outlook, it will bitch that it doesn't have a
.pst file and offer a way to browse to the moved .pst file and hook up
to it. Then open (File/Open/Personal Data File) the 2000 .pst file and
move your messages to the new one.

Alias

Thanks for this insightful comment. The pst is currently 2,097,120.
Just slightly over. Under Properties / Advanced / Compress - is this a
viable option, to compress the pst file, until I work out an upgrade
office strategy? I'm looking for a best option to trim the pst down
to at least keep Outlook healthy.
Thanks

 

[Alias]

Thanks for this insightful comment. The pst is currently 2,097,120.
Just slightly over. Under Properties / Advanced / Compress - is this a
viable option, to compress the pst file, until I work out an upgrade
office strategy? I'm looking for a best option to trim the pst down
to at least keep Outlook healthy.
Thanks

No, you need to delete messages or remove attachments and then compact
your messages followed by a defrag. If you've never compacted the .pst
messages, that alone could reduce the size to under 2GB. Do you have the
archive feature enabled? If not, enable it and run it and it will move a
lot of your messages into a new, archive .pst file which will appear
beneath your folder tree as another folder tree and completely
accessible. When you upgrade to 03 or 07, you can open each of them one
at a time and move the messages of both to the new .pst file.

Alias

 

[Gordon]

I'm having problems with (Windows XP with Office 2000) Outlook's PSB
at 2.1GB. Outlook opens fine however sending large documents with
attachments Outlook crashed. I used task manager to end Outlook.

I learned through Google that I have exceeded the 2GB pst limit. Can I
upgrade / install Office XP Small Business to correct the 2GB limit?

No - it's nothing to do with the version of Outlook and all to do with the
format of the pst file.

I do have that xp office disk. I need to work in Outlook with Pst files
larger than 2GB. Let me know. Thanks

Only Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 will CREATE and READ pst files in the new
Unicode format that will allow expansion to many GB. (20 by default I
think).
You will have to reduce the size of the pst file if you can open it OK by
creating another file (File-New-Outlook Data File) and moving messages into
it until the size of the original file is down to about 1GB to be on the
safe side. (Remember to compact the pst file manually - Outlook 2000 does
not do that automatically)
If you can't open it then you will have to use the pst file cropping tool
here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296088

Be aware that this may cause the loss of some data.

HTH