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Subject:Re: Outlook hosed, pondering next step From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:37:40 -0700
I've seen similar problems. That's one reason I never use Outlook when
given a choice.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Karen Graziano<kmgraziano03 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Outlook does have size limitations. If you right-click your PST folder and select Properties, you can then click on the Folder Size button. This will calculate the size of all your PST sub-folders and a combined total. If it is greater than 1 GB (1,000,000 KB) you could have corruption due to size. Technically Microsoft says the limit is 2 GB, but in my network support experience, I have seen corruption occur at 1.2 GB and higher. There are various tools you can find on the internet (some free, some not) that claim to repair PST files. With the few I've tried I can't say that I've had a lot of success, but you may want to explore options for repair tools if your PST is over 1GB. ...
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