Outlook's max file size

[kelly]

I have a machine with Office XP. The pst file is at its max (1.82 GB). MS KB says the max file size. MS KB 304863 says this was corrected in SP-1. Well, I installed SP-1 and the problem is still there, so I installed SP-2 and still can't make changed to the Outlook calendar because the file size is maxed out.

Then MSKB 305108 talks about 2 .msp files that need to be installed: Outlook.msp and Olkintl.msp. I can't find these. Shouldn't they have been included in the SPs 1/2 that I installed?

Anyway - this .pst file is maxed out. Any solutions?

- tony

[Dan18960]

Tony,

I noticed there is also a sp3 out for Office XP that you might want to check out.

Did you do a search on your hard drive after the sp was downloaded and expanded? Both of the .msp files you are asking about are in the sp download and "MAY" not be installed by default.

[kelly]

Well, after poking around MS for a while, I think I found the answer. MS never changed the max file size of an Outlook pst file. The fix was to present the user with an appropriate error message.

In the original version of Outlook 2002, the error message just said that there was an unknown error when you tried to add something in Outlook. The subsequent versions actually tell you that the file size is maxed out and to delete some items.

So what I'm going to do is to make additional pst files to store the old items. That seemed to work on my test machine.

Right now, I'm restoring the image I made the other day to a larger hard drive using Acronis. So I have another issue that should be placed in another forum, but I'll continue it here.

Once the image from the original 30 GB HD is restored to the new 80 GB HD, I've found that I'm left with only 30 GB of usuable space. Then I use Disk Director to increase the size of the larger drive with space from the unallocated portion of the drive. Is there an option in True Image that realizes the drive is larger and formates all the unallocated space?
-td