Outlook XP and large pst files

[Valk]

My company is upgrading outlook from 2000 to XP, large pst over 500 mb used to be a big problem on 2000, can anyone tell me if XP will manage them any better???
Thanks.

 

[VulcanJedi]

this is kinda a tangent, but I just came across this yesterday, at least in XP there are settings that let you compress outlook folders....would this help? Tranpkp
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[Valk]

The compress option is already avaiable on Outlook 2000, the main problem (and the pain for us being a 1st line support) is that all pst over 500 mb get corrupted easily and we know already that 2 gig is the limit. Recovering and splitting a large pst is extremely time consuming, so I was wondering if Outlook XP can manage them better.

 

[Paul666]

Outlook XP still suffers from the 2Gb problem. However,
Office XP Service Pack 1 provides better protection against Personal Folders .pst and offline folders .ost file growing past the 2GB size limit. Once a PST or OST file reaches 1.82GB, users with SP1 will not be able to add new items. Overall though, all the Office XP applications are more stable and handle file corruption far better, so you should certainly see less problems with corrupt PST files!