How To Find Large E-mail Attachments In Outlook Pst?

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A Microsoft Outlook PST can grow considerably large because of continuous incoming and outgoing e-mail messages. An ANSI formatted PST is allowed to have utmost 65, 535 items per folder and maximum size of 2 GB. Two prime solutions to handle such problems include, to Split PST File or to delete the undesired and large-sized e-mails. Often, Outlook e-mails consist not only text, but also heavy attachments. These e-mail attachments can be large enough to contribute a great amount to the overall size of Outlook PST. Finding these attachments quickly can help a user decide upon whether to delete or keep them.

Microsoft Outlook 2003 includes a Search Folder under the name 'Large Mail' that can be used to locate large e-mail attachments and help you to delete them. This folder contains all those messages, which are larger than 100 KB in size. Outlook calculates the complete size of an e-mail message as sum of size of all text, graphics, and attachments, that are included in the message.

To locate the folder, you need to:

(1) Go to 'Navigation Pane'.

(2) Expand the entry named 'Search Folder'.

(3) ...
... Click 'Large Mail' search folder.

If you cannot see any such folder, you can manually create it:

(1) Click 'File' menu and point to 'New' in 'Mail' tab.

(2) Click 'Search Folder'.

(3) In section named 'Organizing Mail' of 'Select a Search Folder', click 'Large Mail'.

After finding the e-mails with large file attachments or graphics, you can delete them. Keep in mind to empty the 'Deleted Items' folder and then compact the PST file after this. The size of PST will remain the same if you do not compact it.

Another solution to decrease the PST file size and keep it manageable is to Split PST file. This is possible using a third-party utility to split the file. Designed to perform file split procedures, these utilities can Split Large PST File without any hassle and give smaller PST files, each usable within Outlook.

Stellar Phoenix PST File Splitter is a risk-free solution to divide a large sized PST into smaller, PST files. Supporting MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000, this software can Split PST File with few simple clicks. The tool splits the PST file on the basis of e-mail ID or date.

Mohit Mathur has passion for writing Technical articles. He is right now writing articles related to products like Split PST File & PST Repair and has now become a professional writer.