• covid purge

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Thu Apr 8 22:48:00 2021
    Hello All!

    I use MS Outlook for email at my shop. Over a year has
    transpired since the covid stuff took over my life and I hadn't
    been feeling like keeping up with the pace of incoming emails
    that could normally be deleted. Sure enough, I was reaching the
    2GB limit that MS Outlook has with its email .PST files.

    My .PST file was at about 1.96GB

    From there, it wouldn't be long before incoming email and the
    ability to even delete emails would simply stop.

    My vendors would often send catalog details with images and
    attachments. 30% of the mail were messages over 100MB each!
    About 30% more were emails between 20MB up to 100MB. What a
    friggin freakshow email has become. Other messages had to do
    with covid policies and announcements.

    A lot of that sh*t simply had to go.

    So, I decided to dedicate most of my day to purging old
    material. Man.. it was so cathartic to simply delete most of
    the incoming messages from 2019 and 2020.

    I deleted over 1140 pieces of email, some not even read. But I
    still had to walk through each and every one to ensure that I
    wasn't deleting something like an invoice or a bill that I
    needed.

    Once the messages are deleted, the .PST file needs to be
    compacted to eliminate the "empty spaces" and obtain the true
    size of the file.

    The result was a cool reduction from 1.96GB to:

    Directory of C:\OUTLOOK Data

    08/04/2021 09:39 AM 1,351,549,952 august.pst

    That gives me some breathing room to grow again and ignore the
    next batch of incoming crap.

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to August Abolins on Fri Apr 9 11:57:34 2021
    *** Quoting August Abolins from a message to All ***

    Sure enough, I was reaching the 2GB limit that MS Outlook has with
    its email .PST files.

    What version of Outlook are you using? Outlook 2007 has a 20GB .PST file limit and Outlook 2010+ has a 50GB limit.


    Jay

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  • From August Abolins@2:460/256 to Jay Harris on Fri Apr 9 19:09:32 2021
    Hi Jay,
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    *** Quoting August Abolins from a message to All ***

    Sure enough, I was reaching the 2GB limit that MS Outlook has with
    its email .PST files.

    What version of Outlook are you using? Outlook 2007 has a 20GB .PST file limit and Outlook 2010+ has a 50GB limit.


    Jay

    ... The cause of problems are solutions!

    Outlook 2007 here. But it definitely stops at 2GB. Apparently, the system allows different types of .pst. Mine is "Personal Folders File (97-2002)". Maybe that's the problem. From the H)elp, I just found out:

    "Personal Folders File" indicates the new format in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that supports multilingual Unicode data and offers greater storage capacity for items and folders. A file in the Personal Folders file format is not compatible with Microsoft Outlook 97-2002.

    "Personal Folders File (97-2002)" indicates the .pst file format that is compatible with the versions of Outlook prior to Outlook 2003. Personal Folders file (97-2002) does not support Unicode and offers the same storage capacity for items and folders that was available in the previous versions of Outlook.

    I guess the trick is how to convert/change to the new format without too much fuss.

    Ciao!
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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to August Abolins on Fri Apr 9 14:40:01 2021
    *** Quoting August Abolins from a message to Jay Harris ***

    What version of Outlook are you using? Outlook 2007 has a 20GB .PST
    file limit and Outlook 2010+ has a 50GB limit.

    Outlook 2007 here. But it definitely stops at 2GB. Apparently, the system allows different types of .pst. Mine is "Personal Folders
    File (97-2002)".

    I wonder if it's as simple as creating a new .PST in Office 2007 and then dragging & dropping the folders into the new .PST?


    Jay

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Jay Harris on Fri Apr 9 20:15:00 2021
    Hello Jay!

    Outlook 2007 here. But it definitely stops at 2GB.
    Apparently, the system allows different types of .pst.
    Mine is "Personal Folders File (97-2002)".

    I wonder if it's as simple as creating a new .PST in Office
    2007 and then dragging & dropping the folders into the new
    .PST?

    The actual built-in help for Outlook 2007 does not describe the
    increased 20GB support. But I found a post that described a
    simple process to convert.

    You were correct. I just needed to create a new core .pst file.
    Then it was a simple matter to copy the old "Inbox" and drop it
    into the new one. All the subdirectories went along for the
    ride. The process took about 12 minutes to copy 1.3GB.

    Curiously enough, the new file was even smaller than the
    previous compacted one:

    Directory of C:\OUTLOOK Data

    09/04/2021 02:23 PM 1,351,549,952 august.pst <= in OLD format.
    09/04/2021 02:21 PM 1,032,840,192 august2.pst <= in NEW format.



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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Daniel Path on Fri Apr 9 20:19:00 2021
    Hello Daniel!

    ** On Friday 09.04.21 - 07:38, you wrote to me:

    Directory of C:\OUTLOOK Data

    08/04/2021 09:39 AM 1,351,549,952 august.pst

    That gives me some breathing room to grow again and ignore
    the next batch of incoming crap.


    install Thunderbird and problem solved... :)

    What is the limit in the TB email files?


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