I've got a user who gets a ton of e-mails and has a lot of the older ones archived but his archive file is getting somewhat out of control. I believe it's somewhere around 5 GB. He's trying to archive more e-mails but he's getting error messages and I'm guessing it's due to the size of the archive file. Can I somehow compress the file to make it more manageable?
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Problems with very large Outlook 2007 archive file
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The best solution is to break up the PST into multiple PSTs, ie. by year, project, person, etc.
It's recommended that the PST remain below 2GB, so help him reduce it to below that size. Anything over is just asking for corruption and Outlook will take forever to open up too...
If he complains, tell him he's running the risk of losing everything in that pst (kinda, but not really)...
It's recommended that the PST remain below 2GB, so help him reduce it to below that size. Anything over is just asking for corruption and Outlook will take forever to open up too...
If he complains, tell him he's running the risk of losing everything in that pst (kinda, but not really)...
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Nope, best to do it manually, moving messages from the large PST into a newly created one. If it's too "tedious", try just moving things like "deleted items" or "sent items" as these tend to be the largest folders, assuming he/she has it in the big PST in question.
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