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	How to repair an oversized PST file with Advanced Outlook Repair?

Solution Outlook 2002 and earlier versions only limit PST files to 2GB. If PST file size goes beyond this limit, Outlook cannot process it correctly. This is called the oversized problem.

Advanced Outlook Repair can solve the problem. There are two alternative solutions:

1. Convert oversized PST file into Outlook 2003 format, which doesn't has a 2GB limit. However, to use this solution, you must install Outlook 2003 on your computer. The detailed steps are:

1.1 Start Advanced Outlook Repair.
1.2 Select the source oversized PST file in the "Select PST file to be repaired" edit box, and set its format as "Auto Determined" or other values if you know its format already.
1.3 Set the output fixed PST file name, and set its format to "Outlook 2003".
1.4 Click "Start Repair" button, Advanced Outlook Repair will repair the source oversized PST file, recover all data in it, and save them into the fixed PST file in Outlook 2003 format.
1.5 Open the fixed PST file with Outlook 2003.

Alternatively, if you don't have Outlook 2003 installed, you can:

2. Split the oversized PST file into smaller ones less than 2GB, as follows:

2.1 Start Advanced Outlook Repair.
2.2 Go to "Options" tab, select "Split output PST file when it is larger than xxx MB" option, and set the size limit to a value less than 2GB, for example, 1000MB. Please note the unit is MB.
2.3 Go to "Repair" tab.
2.4 Select the source oversized PST file.
2.5 Set the output fixed PST file name.
2.6 Click the "Start Repair" button, Advanced Outlook Repair will repair the source oversized PST file, recover the data and output them into the fixed PST file. If the output PST file is larger than the preset value, then a second output PST file will be generated, if the second file is larger than the preset value, then a third output PST file will be generated, and so on. For example, if you enable the option "Split output PST file when it is larger than xxx MB" and specify 1000MB as the size limit, then if the output pst file myfile_fixed.pst is larger than 1000MB when some recovered items have been saved into it, a split PST file called myfile_fixed_1.pst will be created to accommodate the remaining recovered items, and if myfile_fixed_1.pst reaches 1000MB again, a new split PST file called myfile_fixed_2.pst will be created, and so on.
2.7 Thus each output PST file will never be larger than the preset value so you can open them one by one in Outlook.

Please visit http://www.datanumen.com/aor/problems/2gb-pst.htm for a more detailed information about oversized 2GB Outlook PST file.

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15 Feb 2007 09:28 PM