[dba-Tech] Outlook .pst Size Limits

Reische, Brenda L. blreische at mdh.org
Thu Sep 16 09:05:18 CDT 2004


>From Microsoft.com

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 has both a different format and a larger
overall size limit for the personal folders (.pst) file than the .pst files
that are in the earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook. In Outlook 2002 and
earlier, the .pst files are in the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) format, and the overall size has a limit of 2 gigabytes (GB).

In Outlook 2003 .pst files are in the UNICODE format by default, and the
overall size of the .pst files has a limit that is more than 20 GB. Outlook
2003 supports both the UNICODE and the ANSI formats, but the versions of
Outlook that are earlier than Outlook 2003 do not support the UNICODE format
and have a smaller size limit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News) [mailto:Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 9:01 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Outlook .pst Size Limits

Off-hand, is anyone aware of a size limitation for .pst files.  I have one
in particular that is nearing 1/2 a Terabyte.


Mark
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