Thank you very very much to everyone who provided answers. Fortunately, eseutil was able to defrag it enough for me to get a mailbox out and then I was able to clean out the big mailbox. I was concerned that there would not be room for much in the way of defragging.
This PowerTools looks like a possibly useful little item for me for another issue so I am immensely grateful for this response also. With any luck this will be the last straw and they will finally see they need to upgrade. Thanks again, everyone. Ronni Smith --- Tony Hlabse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could get a eval copy of PowerTools from > Ontrack. It will allow you to > extract data from a store without it being online. > The eval copy is good for > only 5 mailboxes though, but in your case that > should be ok to clean up that > one big mailbox. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Fyodorov, > Andrey FTL > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 7:21 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: exchange 5.5 standard size limit > problem > > ExMerge won't run since the information store is > stopped. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Dennie > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:18 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: exchange 5.5 standard size limit > problem > > > You might try running exmerge on the information > store and you could set it > to move that one mailbox to a pst file. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Ronni > Smith > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:59 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: exchange 5.5 standard size limit problem > > My exchange 5.5 server has stopped (event ID 1112) > because the mailbox store hit the 16GB limit. A user > being stupid copied nearly a GB of data in this > morning before I had any idea what he was up to. > Yes, > we should have had limits I guess, but my boss has > always refused to allow it. Yes we should upgrade to > Enterprise but we hadn't done it yet and have to > upgrade the domain first anyway. Yes all the users > had > been warned we were running out of space and they > should be careful. Yes I have been pestering my boss > to upgrade for months now. > > I can't get the store to come up long enough to do > anything such as clean a mailbox or delete one or > get > in with a client to delete a message with a big > attachment. Once in a while it does come up just > long > enough to go down again the instant I try to do > anything. Usually and for the last three or four > tries > it fails to start successfully. However it gives no > reason why - it says it is giving no reason why. It > does not produce an error message (other than the > Event ID 1112) in the event logs. > > I found article 828070 searching eventid.com but it > only applies to Exchange 2000 and 2003 as nearly as > I > can tell. > > Should I try eseutil /d (to a network drive so it > will > take hours) to see if I can scrounge enough space to > get the store to come up long enough to run clean > mailbox and othewise delete enough stuff to get back > up or should I call PSS first? Do they have some > cunning reg hack that would allow Exchange 5.5 to > come > up long enough for me to delete stuff for example as > it appears they do for Exchange 2000 and 2003? > > Restoring from backup is a suggestion I have already > received and am considering. But I may have problems > doing that since the backup autoloader has also > decided to behave oddly today. Although according to > BuExec it did successfully run last night's > incremental and I have a full from earlier this week > as well as the incrementals. If I can get the drive > to > work. > > I'd suspect a power issue but everything is on > UPSes. > > Anyway, any suggestions will be gratefully received. > > Thanks, > > Ronni > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. 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