How many .pst files have you generated?

Outlook and the dreaded message store maximum...

[pageoneresults]

Just when you think you have your Auto Archive settings just right...

"Outlook cannot perform the task. The message store has reached its maximum of 1.6G..."

Time to create a new .pst file, this will be what, #24 I believe. Lots of "real" email coming through these days. Thank you Barracuda and SpamBayes.

So, how many .pst files do you have in your closet?

[coopster]

8

Most of them are archived history though. My current year .pst is at 800MB, not quite halfway through the year. Hmm, at this rate I just may hit the threshold!

[bill]

[support.microsoft.com...]

Outlook 97~2003 = 2 GB

Outlook 2003 & 2007 Unicode .pst = 20 GB

I've read that the Unicode format of a PST file can potentially be extended to a theoretical maximum size of 33 TB.

[coopster]

Excellent news. I can go to 20GB!

[pageoneresults]

:( Not me. I went through the instructions and unfortunately at Step 4 I'm lost because those folders do not exist.

[bill]

It sounds like you dont't have a Unicode PST. I normally create a brand new PST and then drag and drop my old data into it.

MS suggests that you import the data:
[office.microsoft.com...]