PST Has Reached It's Maximum Size!!! - HELP!!!

[Toni]

My Windows XP Pro SP3 laptop has Microsoft Office XP SP3.

This morning when attempting to download my email, Outlook 2002 shocked me with a
message "outlook4.pst has reached it's maximum size". My PST file has reached 1.9G.

A search has only shown me fixes for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

PLEASE, can anyone tell me if there is a fix or a tweak that will let Outlook 2002 SP3
grow the size of my PST file??? I am shut down until this is fixed!

 

[Gordon]

My Windows XP Pro SP3 laptop has Microsoft Office XP SP3.

This morning when attempting to download my email, Outlook 2002 shocked me
with a message "outlook4.pst has reached it's maximum size". My PST file
has reached 1.9G.

A search has only shown me fixes for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

PLEASE, can anyone tell me if there is a fix or a tweak that will let
Outlook 2002 SP3 grow the size of my PST file??? I am shut down until this
is fixed!

Nope - there IS no "fix" to allow the pst file to grow. Outlook 2002 and
prior use the old ANSI format pst file which is limited to a theoretical
size of 2GB but in practice is lower - as you have found out.
If you can open Outlook, create a new pst file and move some (a lot!) of
data into it. Compact the original pst file when you've done that.

HTH

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

My Windows XP Pro SP3 laptop has Microsoft Office XP SP3.

This morning when attempting to download my email, Outlook 2002 shocked me
with a message "outlook4.pst has reached it's maximum size". My PST file has
reached 1.9G.

A search has only shown me fixes for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

PLEASE, can anyone tell me if there is a fix or a tweak that will let
Outlook 2002 SP3 grow the size of my PST file??? I am shut down until this
is fixed!

Create a new PST and copy a portion of the data in your exoisting PST to the
new PST or employ the AutoArchive function in Outlook to remove some of the
older entries in your existing PST to the archive PST. You can have nearly as
many PST as you wish, so there's no practical limit to the amount of data
Outlook can contain.

 

[Rebelsmom]

Create a new PST and copy a portion of the data in your exoisting PST to the
new PST or employ the AutoArchive function in Outlook to remove some of the
older entries in your existing PST to the archive PST. You can have nearly as
many PST as you wish, so there's no practical limit to the amount of data
Outlook can contain.

I'm working with XP SP3 , but maybe not for long.

 

[Toni]

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Nope - there IS no "fix" to allow the pst file to grow. Outlook 2002 and prior use the
old ANSI format pst file which is limited to a theoretical size of 2GB but in practice
is lower - as you have found out.
If you can open Outlook, create a new pst file and move some (a lot!) of data into it.
Compact the original pst file when you've done that.

HTH

That's what I had to do - created a new PST and moved 500M of messages to the new PST. I
then compacted the original PST to reclaim the space. Entire operation took over two
hours with a 1.6GHz/Duo, but it's done.

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov // SBS Expert]

Please create a new thread and describe your problem.

We need to know your Outlook version including service pack level,
Windows version, and what is your current antivirus solution.

Your data is probably fine.

By "Contacts" you are probably referring to the fact that your
autocomplete feature still works.

Anyway, create a new thread and we'll talk there.
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