On Aug 7, 4:14 pm, "Brian Tillman" wrote:
The information about whaty has been downloaded is kept in the profile, not
the PST. Creating a new mail profile will reset the data and cause Outlook
to download it all again.
I didn't know it was in the profile. Do you know where the profile
data is stored? Ideally I'd like to just change the variable that
outlook uses to keep track of which emails it has downloaded so far.

I guessed it would be in the registry, but I didn't notice any of the
Outlook registry keys changing when I downloaded some mails. (Apart
from SQMReceivedDate and SQMReceivedNumber, which I think are used for
reporting crash data)

My approach would be to not leave the messages on the server. However, if I
wanted to leave them there, I'd use webmail and reorganize the server,
putting all the older messages in separate folders on the server so that
Outlook won't see them in the inbox and then won't download them.
That's what I'm doing now and thanks for your help. I guess I
shouldn't have 10K emails in my inbox folder!

DL wrote:
In edition you would be best advised to create a new data file, in the new
unicode format (the default for OL2003/07) set it as default and if
neccessary copy data from your old pst to this - The new format is
apparently more robust and doesnt have the size limitation.
NB do NOT import, unless you want to lose settings & more
What is the difference between copying and importing? Is there a way
to just ask Outlook to upgrade the PST file to the new version?

--
Karen