I say break it down more. I wouldn't go over 300MB personally, especially if he's using Outlook 9x. It is quite unlikely that he needs access to all 2 gigs of email at all times. Give him a new PST as his working copy and don't have all PSTs active in his profile. Show him how he can open and close PST files using the file menu.
S -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Brasslett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: PST=BAD I thought I would never have to actually post a PST question as I know PST=BAD. But I have been asked to help a subcontractor of ours with his Outlook woes. He has been storing his emails in a PST. Apparently, they don't have an exchange server so PST was their only option. He is complaining that he is losing emails and Outlook is very slow. Turns out the guy has a 1.9GB PST file! I quickly pointed out to him that a PST of over 1.0GB is considered unstable and prone to corruption and that Outlook will no longer work once his PST reaches 2.0GB. Long term solution (2 months?) would be to provide him access to our Exchange resources with a VPN tunnel and store his emails there. So for a short term solution (until I can get the tunnel setup) I could break up his PST into multiple smaller PST files (around 500MB each). Do you believe that multiple smaller PST files (all opened in Outlook at the same time) would be more stable than one 1.9GB PST? Is this a good short term solution? I am open to other suggestions. OWA access is currently not feasible for various reasons. TIA, Aaron _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
