My comments were in referance to using PST files for my home mail (not exchange) but after reading more it seems that my PST is not using the new unicode as it was a migration from outlook 2000 about two years ago. Anybody know if there is a automatic converter around (making copies of all the folders and exporting and re-importing all the rules will get ugly)?
At work we are e2k3 and outlook 2003. I know that people have older PST files that they have moved with years of archived e-mails (all the way back to early 90's). So being able to upgrade those to exceed the earlier limits would be great. Our current mail retention policy does not allow for keeping more then 18 months of history online. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Knoch Jr., James W Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:21 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? The newer Outlooks are supposed to automatically modify the (97-2002) ANSI PST files to use Large Table support after hitting a certain limit. If you can install an old copy of Outlook 97-2000, you can take a look there to see if large table support is enabled and if not enable it. Otherwise I suggest using Outlook 2003 PST file if you have to use PST files anywhere. Yes, they only work for Outlook 2003+, but not having to waste time to recover a 2GB PST is worth it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Duro Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:01 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? This is embarassing: 10 years with Exchange, and I've never heard of Large Table Support. Worse, I can't find it anywhere. Nikki's directions got me nowhere. I drilled through all the menus and the Help -- nothing. I googled, and the only substantial stuff on LTS was for Outlook 97. Can anybody extend a helping hand to the hapless? Outlook 2002, & 2003. Exchange 2003. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikki Peterson - OETX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? This is PST/OST info: Server info is dependent on OST with Cache mode etc. as it applies to the client. ANSI: File Size: 2GB max (reads about 1.92GB in Explorer) Large Table Support not Enabled (Default) * 16,000 folders * 16,000 items per folder Large Table Support Enabled * 65,000 folders * 65,000 items per folder To enable Large Table support, right click on Personal Folders and select properties. Select Advanced. Check the box to enable large table support and select OK until you return to the main window. ANSI: Legacy PST (Outlook 97 - 2002) * 2GB max file size * 16,000/65,000 items per folder * 16,000/65,000 folders per folder Unicode: PST (Outlook 2003 Only/Not backward compatible) * 20GB max file size (default limit but can go higher - NOTE: limited by drive format; FAT16 is limited to 2 GB for a single file, FAT32 is limited to 4GB for a single file) * Be very careful how you sell the new file size limit. You must keep in mind that FAT32 has a single file size limit of 4GB - 2 Bytes. So if you are running Windows 2000/XP on a FAT32 partition, the unicode PST can't grow beyond the single file size limit of FAT32 no matter what Outlook 2003 can do. * Unknown items per folder (rumor has it at 130 million) * Unknown folders per folder (more than any mere mortal deserves) * Unicode format will support all known character formats Requirements for Unicode format PST: * Users must have Exchange 2000 or later accounts * Outlook also checks the formats - Unicode or ANSI - of users Offline Store (OST) files and the default archive files. * Outlook checks the format of users' PST files that are used as a delivery location (if any). Nikki Peterson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Skrotzki Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:46 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? This is from using PST's. I have a folder that refuses to accept another message. Total messages in folder are 65535. I can duplicate this over and over on Different systems. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vin Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:15 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? Can you explain a little more about the following (is this documented somewhere?): "I know that we have issues with outlook 2003 and PST's at about the 65K range as they use a 16 bit word as a counter/pointer so you'll cap out at 65535". -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Skrotzki Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:11 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? Well I have several top level folders with 45000+ in them (e2k3). Yes performance sucks but it works, we only resort to it for folders that you go into once a month or so. I know that we have issues with outlook 2003 and PST's at about the 65K range as they use a 16 bit word as a counter/pointer so you'll cap out at 65535. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Brasslett Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:24 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? I have 29,000 emails in my Sent Items. Why? Because I can. Is it slow? Sure, but it still works just fine. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Monaghan Posted At: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:04 AM Posted To: Exchange Mailing List Conversation: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? Not that I don't believe you from empirical evidence, but I would appreciate any link to Microsoft's info on this. We have had numerous discussions with people here at the office and it always comes down to "show me the money". I have looked for quite a while, and I am sure I am not using the proper search terms, but this link would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Felis demulcta mitis ... Alan G. Monaghan [ MCSE+I - Win4.0/ MCSE - Win2k/ BJCP # C0389(Recognized) Ò¿Ó¬ ] Systems Administrator Gardner Publications, Inc. *Phone ...... 1-513-527-8867 *Fax ........ 1-513-527-8801 *Cell ....... 1-513-378-0919 *E-mail ..... [EMAIL PROTECTED] *URL ........ http://Bullwinkle.GardnerWeb.Com/ >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley >> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:13 PM >> To: Exchange Discussions >> Subject: RE: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? >> >> The limit is just over 16,000, in any one folder, I believe, however >> it's a generally accepted guideline that you should keep it under >> 1,000 items in any folder because Outlook will take an increasingly >> long time to render the view of the folder as the number increases. >> Simply create some other folders and sort messages into them if they >> can't be deleted. >> >> Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP >> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral >> problems." >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Orin Rehorst >> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:44 AM >> To: Exchange Discussions >> Subject: Limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? >> >> Is there a limit on number of emails in Outlook Inbox? >> >> A user had 6800 emails in the Inbox. 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