thanx for your help, it worked. they now have the new and improved pst
file. cant believe that m$ thought that a business could run on a 2 gb
limit file till 2003.
as i sit here watching the light on my harddrive go solid red with
activity and the cpu that used to be big enough for a mainframe
computer goto 100% just sitting here, im glad that soon ill be able to
retire from this.
let me know if anyone wants an interupt driven terminal emulation
program written in assembler 1.1

thanx again


Brian Tillman wrote:
wrote:

let me tell the whole story, have a customer who called and reported
that he could no longer send and receive email because he was getting
an error message that the folder was too large. i found a backup as of
3/29 of the pst that had not yet grown to the maximum size. i then
created a new and improved email profile using the new and improved
outlook 2003 and imported the old pst file into the new and improved
one.
got the same error, file has grown to it's maximum etc. after outlook
re downloaded all messages (in true pop3 fashion).
the only thing i can figure is that , when i created the new email
profile, there must have been an outlook.pst file already that was in
the old format.
interestingly enough, the new and improved didnt write over it.

When you create a new mail profile, unless you specifcally add a pointer to
a data file, I don't think Outlook goes out looking for one.

At any rate, if you want to convert an ANSI PST to a Unicode one, see this:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f?dmode=source
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Brian Tillman