How big is the .pst file on the C: drive?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:

| I run Outlook 97 on my employer's PC and make use of the Personal
| Folders facility quite a bit. As we are restricted to a 10Mb mailbox
| size I find it very helpful to simply copy all Inbox messages and
| Sent Items to Personal Folders and they are then stored on the C
| drive in perpetuity.
|
| This has worked fine for 5+ years but now I am getting an error
| message when I try and delete or move items between the sub folders
| of my Personal Folders. This is either:
|
| - The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the
| problem persists, start Outlook again [have done that several times
| to no avail]
|
| or
|
| - Can't move the items
|
| Our internal IT guys (telephone support to several thousand employees)
| aren't too interested and say that it may be something to do with the
| size of my .pst file (c 238Mb). They suggested splitting the
| Personal Folders and thereby reducing the size of each .pst file but
| this hasn't worked either.
|
| Any ideas? I have some 27,000 messages stored and am keen not to
| lose them!