> -----Original Message----- > From: Erika L. Walker [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:35 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Outlook PST's, all versions > > > One more time for the hard of reading ... ;) > > Not ALL of my pst's are 2 gigs. I have 1 at 1.9 (which I rounded to 2 > gigs, > the one it gets hung up on) and another at 1.6, the rest are all under > 1 > gig. But I have 11 of them.
I don't think that "2 Gig" is really the issue (2 Gig was the file-size limit of FAT 16 and a lot of software inherited it for backwards compatibility - few have kept it). I think it's more the number of messages and their organization - if your file (not "your file", Erika, but "your file" Outlook user) is very large because of large attachments then that seems fine. It also seems to handle organized message caches better (multiple folders) rather than single folders with huge numbers of messages. (For example my "HOFLists" account had, at one point, over 20,000 messages in the archive - opening/working with that folder was slow, but not others.) Honestly this seems pretty much par for the course - I'm not aware of any email program that specifically handles huge message caches really well (the online ones are fastest - lots more horse-power on the server and they tend to manage things in smaller doses). But does outlook actually "get hung up" or does it eventually open? If it's really getting hung perhaps the PST is corrupt? Running scanpst.exe (usually in the Office root folder) may uncover problems (and repair them). If you did want to maintain the PSTs (doesn't sound like you do) you could suffer through the file opening once more and just split it up into multiple, smaller files. But if you don't plan on using Outlook anymore doesn't sound like that's worth it - just import into what you do want to use and be done with it. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294791 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
