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[ellen_datlow]

And yet again, my outlook email has been crashing as it tries to download my 200 or so saved emails from my trip. Which means I now have about 8 copies of some emails there. And that I can't go in there again till Jim Freund and I see what the effing problem is with pc anywhere tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, I can access my email through webmail but what a pain. I may have to leave outlook if we can't figure out why it does this. (I turned off the email scanner as that helped last time, but no such luck this time--it has gotten almost halfway through but no further. Blghhhh.
Glad to me home and Bella has been laying all over me and the keyboard (no, she's not the reason it crashes ;-) ).
Unpacking and catching up on stuff.

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[pm-again.livejournal.com]

Just seeing your post.

Here's a couple of things to be aware of...

Outlook uses two pst files to store your email/contacts/calendar etc. One if for your current mail typically named Personal Folder and the other is the archive. If you used it prior to Outlook 2003, then your pst file is limited to 2 GB in size. There is no warning when you hit the limit...just weird behavior.

pst files end with the file extension .pst.

Microsoft has a utility named scanpst.exe which is used to repair pst files. pst files can become corrupted. Just be aware that if your pst file is large it can take a few hours for the process to complete. You're not provided with any kind of onscreen feedback as the scan is in progress.

So if you find that your pst file(s) are at the 2 GB limit, what you would do is:

1. Use scanpst.exe to confirm that the pst files are ok.

2. Create a new Outlook 2003 pst file which has a file limit size of 20 instead of 2 GB. Then import your pre-existing pst file's email/contacts/calendar/etc into the new one.

Live happily ever after for a undetermined period of time...:)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've passed this on to my tech guy, just in case he's not aware of this (although I bet he is).