pst oversize

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just a little question....
why outlook does not have a suggest to end user to create a new pst
file when it is near 2GB?
in all companies i've worked , end user never know this capacity
limit, so at the end they corrupt the file with lost of some email.
would it be so difficult generate a pop up?
 
thelunatic said:
just a little question....
why outlook does not have a suggest to end user to create a new pst
file when it is near 2GB?
in all companies i've worked , end user never know this capacity
limit, so at the end they corrupt the file with lost of some email.
would it be so difficult generate a pop up?
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It does for later versions of Outlook than the one you appear to be running
(but who can really tell when you don't state it).
 
excuse me Sue.... but must i buy , read and study a book to have this option?
i think this must be own of outlook options, don't you think?
 
No, but you do need to provide your Outlook version and build number from Help | About.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
outlook 2003 (11.6359.6408) sp1
thanks


Sue Mosher said:
No, but you do need to provide your Outlook version and build number =
from Help | About.=20

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thelunatic said:
excuse me Sue.... but must i buy , read and study a book to have this = option?
i think this must be own of outlook options, don't you think?
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Depending on your version of Outlook, you may indeed get a = warning.=3D20
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just a little question....
why outlook does not have a suggest to end user to create a new pst
file when it is near 2GB?
in all companies i've worked , end user never know this capacity
limit, so at the end they corrupt the file with lost of some email.
would it be so difficult generate a pop up?
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thelunatic said:
outlook 2003 (11.6359.6408) sp1
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PSTs created in the OL 2003-native UInicode format don't have a 2 GB limit.
Outlook will warn you when your PST approaches 20 GB.
 
Brian Tillman said:
PSTs created in the OL 2003-native UInicode format don't have a 2 GB limit.
Outlook will warn you when your PST approaches 20 GB.
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ok. thanks, and for older versions of outlook how could i do?
 
thelunatic said:
ok. thanks, and for older versions of outlook how could i do?
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How do you do what? Get a warning? Outlook 2002 (and, I think, 2000, with
the post-SP3 hotfix package) should both warn you when you aproach the 2G
limit.
 
How do you do what? Get a warning? Outlook 2002 (and, I think, 2000, with
the post-SP3 hotfix package) should both warn you when you aproach the 2G
limit.
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WITH OUTLOOK 2002 AND 2000 I NEVER HAD A 2GB WARNING... AND ALSO I WAS
SEARCHING FOR SOME OPTION TO ENABLE FOR IT..... IS THERE A WAY TO DO
IT?
 
thelunatic said:
WITH OUTLOOK 2002 AND 2000 I NEVER HAD A 2GB WARNING... AND ALSO I WAS
SEARCHING FOR SOME OPTION TO ENABLE FOR IT..... IS THERE A WAY TO DO
IT?
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I'm sure I read a KB article that mentioned the warning, but I can't find it
now.
 
thelunatic said:
here' the link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832925
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That's about Outlook 2003, but you were asking about OL 2000/2002. I
thought I remembered articles about PST size warnings for those versions as
well, but I can't find them.
but there are not the registry entries in my pc..... must i create
them?
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For OL 2003, yes.
and is there a way to make an exe or a batch file that would do this ?
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Certainly. In Windows XP there's a "reg" command that lets you add registry
values via a batch file. You can also create a .reg file and use regedit to
import it into the registry in a batch file. Run this batch file as a login
script.
 
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