I've recently used this software sucessfully. You can download a version which will allow you to test on your PST file so you will be pretty sure it will work. It's also about a third the price of the other one mentioned recently. Link below...
It creates another .PST file to handle the 2GB overflow. The MS tool just truncates a bunch off the tail of the file to make it < 2GB. Although my system was patched with SP1 ( which is supposed to prevent Outlook from exceeding the 2GB max) it didn't matter. Not only does it exceed the 2GB limit but it also seems to corrupt the .PST file. The MS SCANPST tool doesn't work on it once it's >2GB. It also recovered all my latest email. The only annoying part was that it recreates the folder structure in it's entirety in both new .PST files. I had to traverse the folder tree in the 2nd file manually looking for recent emails so I could move them to a single PST file after I cleaned enough space http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Microsoft-Outlook-Mail-Recovery.html?gcli d=CIyZkqbI958CFdRM5Qodb2ecfg Be sure to make a copy ( I made multiple copies ) before you start messing with repair tools :-) Good luck, Joe Morlino [email protected] Islands Computer Services Beaufort, SC -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opening 2+ Gig PST files I can't seem to get that site to load. Can you advise what the "tool" is? I've already tried scanpst and it doesn't help. It give me an error while trying to repair it. From: Blackman, Woody [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opening 2+ Gig PST files I have used this tool successfully. http://www.stellarinfo.com/outlook-pst-file-recovery.htm From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Opening 2+ Gig PST files I have a PST file I want to trim down, but I can't get Outlook to open it. It was created in Outlook 2000 and I have Outlook 2007. Whenever I attempt to open it, it gives me an error that it's reached it's maximum size and I need to permanently delete some items to fix it, but it immediately closes the PST file so I can't access it. How the heck am I supposed to reduce the size if Outlook won't open it???? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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