What can I do about Outlook's huge PST?

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Have you look at the size of the subfolders within it to see where the size is going? How are you compacting (i.e. what steps do you take?)?

Hi,
I have also got same Problem earliar.What I did is picked up free pst truncator and truncate the pst and made it around 1.8 GB and then it worked.offcourse we lost some mails but got most of them.

All the best good luck.

Santosh

Outlook 2002 .pst files default setting is supposed to be 2 gig. But by default once you reach 1.82 gig your .pst file will cease to function. What you need to do is clean out your personal folders, either by archiving them and burning the files that you seem to want to keep onto a cd. And when you need them just import them from the cd. People seem to want to keep emails from 1-2 years ago. I think this is just a bit unreasonable. There is no need to keep these but if you have to print them out and store them in a safe or burn them to a cd.

I want to delete certain e-mail messages permantently such that they are not recoverable at all. How can I ensure that all deleted files are not recoverable in any way.

JM

I would: 1) delete the mail, 2) empty the recyle bin, and 3) compress the PST. For added security, I might then use one of the disk utilities that blanks out all the unused space on your hard disk in case file fragments were left around containing the email you want to get rid of.

My problem is just the opposite of too much space being used by Outlook. My problem is that the Deleted files folder is somehow set up to delete files as soon as they are placed into the Deleted files folder. It used to be set up to hold files until I wanted to delete them manually, but somewhere I must have changed some setting and now files are deleted immediately as soon as I put them there. HOW DO I CHANGE THIS BACK?

Hi,
Is the concept of reducing the pst is valid for Outlook 2003?

If anyone faced problems in outlook2003?

I have heard that the outlook 2003 pst format no longer has the 2gig limit, but psts are NOT automatically converted. Either way, I choose not to find out the hard way, and keep my PST's well under 2 gig :-).

I passed to Thunderbird, it imported right away all outlook mail and made a prettier structure in the file system.

That's a confirmed yes that the 2003 pst format no longer has the limit.

I have several PST's over 4GB in size using Outlk 2k3

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