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MS Office Forum / Outlook / General MS Outlook Questions / November 2008Outlook.pst has reached its maximum size?
This message keeps popping up on the screen whenever I try to move emails or do anything with outlook. Also email will not send. " C:\Documents and settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst has reached its maximum size. To reduce the amount of data in this file, select some items that you no longer need, then permanently (shift + del) delete them. " What should I do to fix this & also prevent this in future? What version of Outlook are you using? Current versions support PSTs larger than 2GB. More info here: http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp > This message keeps popping up on the screen whenever I try to move emails > or [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > What should I do to fix this & also prevent this in future? Thanks. I don't know what version I'm using. I think its outlook 2003. I compressed the .pst file a little and when I started to archive my various folders everthing started to work again. > What version of Outlook are you using? Current versions support PSTs larger > than 2GB. More info here: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > What should I do to fix this & also prevent this in future? If you click Help -> About Microsoft Office Outlook, it will tell you which version you have. If it is Outlook 2003, you can create a new type PST file, with practically unlimited file size. After you create the new file, copy (drag-and-drop) all items from the old PST file to the new one. Close the old PST file and you should be fine. > Thanks. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >>> >>> What should I do to fix this & also prevent this in future? Just my luck it is Outlook 2002.... Any tips? > If you click Help -> About Microsoft Office Outlook, it will tell you > which version you have. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >>> > >>> What should I do to fix this & also prevent this in future? I have this exact same problem! I am using 2007 and I created a new inbox; HOWEVER, I cannot add or take away anything from my Address Book or Calendar and I get the same error message AND when I try to delete stuff so maybe that will work, I am not allowed to. I can access my address book in my new inbox but it's like it's still part of the old inbox... Can someone PUHLEEZE help us? > This message keeps popping up on the screen whenever I try to move emails or > do anything with outlook. Also email will not send. " C:\Documents and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > What should I do to fix this & also prevent this in future? I have this problem too; HOWEVER I have created a new inbox BUT my Address Book and Contact list are useless. I cannot add anything and I get teh exact same message. I cannot delete either. it won't allow me to. Can someone PUHLEEZE help us???? > This message keeps popping up on the screen whenever I try to move emails or > do anything with outlook. Also email will not send. " C:\Documents and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > What should I do to fix this & also prevent this in future? >I have this problem too; HOWEVER I have created a new inbox BUT my Address > Book and Contact list are useless. I cannot add anything and I get teh > exact > same message. I cannot delete either. it won't allow me to. What do you mean by "created a new Inbox". If your PST is full, creating more folders in it is pointless. Is your PST an Outlook 97-2002 PST or a Unicode PST? How did you create this "new Inbox"? What size does Windows Explorer report for your PST?  SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] well, what I did was I followed the instructions from the error message and made a new inbox. then I went into Tools and changed the data source to that inbox because I could receive but not send. I cant find the size of the .pst when I searched - just brought up some old emails. I can tell you that I only have 101 emails in the new box. I would screen shot for you but for some reason, my control, shift prt scn isn't working! > >I have this problem too; HOWEVER I have created a new inbox BUT my Address > > Book and Contact list are useless. I cannot add anything and I get teh [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Unicode PST? How did you create this "new Inbox"? What size does Windows > Explorer report for your PST? > well, what I did was I followed the instructions from the error message > and > made a new inbox. then I went into Tools and changed the data source to > that > inbox because I could receive but not send. You're not making a new Inbox. You're making a new PST and changing the delivery location from the old PST to the new one. It would be unlikely, though, for this action to fix sending issues when receiving is OK. The most frequent cause of being able to receive but not send if a misconfiguration of the outgoing server properties in the mail account. > I cant find the size of the .pst Use Windows Explorer to browse to the folder containing your PST and then select it. Explorer will show you its size. SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] Sigh...I have spent 10 minutes trying to get Explorer to pull up my stupid pst file. It won't. I am using Vista and i can't seem to find where you can search for an extension. Again, if my print screen worked, I would show you. Second, I can send and receive. That's not my issue. My issue is I cannot make any changes to my address book or my contact list because of the error message and it won't let me delete anything. So i need to know how I can Associate (if possible) my address book and contact list with the new "not an inbox" that i have created that has all of the folders associated with it and looks exactly like my inbox! Iif this helps, I have 8,713 message in one inbox and 107 in the "not an inbox" inbox. > > well, what I did was I followed the instructions from the error message > > and [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Use Windows Explorer to browse to the folder containing your PST and then > select it. Explorer will show you its size. > Sigh...I have spent 10 minutes trying to get Explorer to pull up my stupid > pst file. It won't. I am using Vista and i can't seem to find where you > can > search for an extension. Again, if my print screen worked, I would show > you. I click the Search button and enter ".pst" as the string. > Second, I can send and receive. That's not my issue. My issue is I cannot > make any changes to my address book or my contact list because of the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > helps, I have 8,713 message in one inbox and 107 in the "not an inbox" > inbox. A PST in NOT an "Inbox". Inbox is only one of the folders that can be in a PST. If you want your other PST to be the delivery location, click Tools>Account Settings and select the Data Files tab. Select the other PST and click Set as Default. Click Close. Stop and restart Outlook. Outlook will create any default folder (Contactrs, Calendar, etc.) that wasn't there to start with and you'll have the new PST as your default folder set. SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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