Pre OL 2003 pst has an absolute size limitation of 2gb, however probs can
occur from 1.6gb.
You would likely be better off following Brians advice to split the pst into
multiple pst's

"rthompson" wrote in message
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Hi and sorry for replying late

Operating system is XP version 2002 service pack 2
And the pst is getting close to 1 GB

Thanks for taking the time to help me out

Rex


"DL" address@invalid a écrit dans le message de news:
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You havent answered the question;
Version of OL
Size of pst?
The way forward depends on the response.

"rthompson" wrote in message
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Hi

And thank you for answering

YES I agree that is the way to go
But unfortunately that is exactly what he does not want to do

What he wants is a miracle solution

And that is what I cannot find

But thanks for the reply and I will try to convince him

Bye for now

Rex


"Brian Tillman" a écrit dans le message de
news:
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rthompson wrote:

On one of our computers, when we open Outlook it takes for ages to
open This is (apparently) mainly due to the VERY large pst file (8
years of Emails with attachements etc)

How large is the PST and what version of Outlook?

Unfortunately he insists on having access to all of his emails once
in a while even those two, three or more years old
And as he is the managing director I have to accept it

Has anybody got an idea?

Divide the PST into multiple PSTs. Organize items in those PSTs in
anty
way the director is comfortable. For example, move all messages
received
in 2004 to a PST named "2004" and move all mesasges received in 2005
to
a
PST named "2005". If that ordering doesn't work, use another.
Create
a
PST for each sender, for example, and move all messages from the same
person to a PST dedicated to messages from that person. You can
organize
things in whatever way the director wants to work.
--
Brian Tillman