Tips To Increase The Storage Capacity Of Pst File

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Storage capacity has always been the problem area when there is increasing exchange of emails and other items. Naturally, size of PST is bound to shoot up. Here in this article you would come to know about ways to increase the storage capacity of Outlook PST file.

MS Outlook Personal Folders file .PST created in MS Outlook 97-2002, doesn't have large storage capacity and therefore there is always a fear of crossing 2 GB file size limitation. From Outlook 2003 onwards, the new .pst file format offers greater storage capacity for items and folders, and supports multilingual Unicode data.

In order to increase storage capacity of PST file of earlier versions, you need to create a new data file in the PST format and import items from Outlook 97-2002 PST file into the new file.

Create a new data file

1.Go to File -> Data File Management -> Data Files -> Add.
2.Click Office Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst), and then click OK.
3.In the File name box, type a name for the .pst file, and then click OK.
4.In the Create Microsoft Personal Folders dialog box, in the Name box, type a display ...
... name for the data file.
5.This is the name that will appear in the Navigation Pane for the .pst data file. The default name for this folder is

Personal Folders.
6.If you want, type a password in the Password and Verify Password text boxes.
7.Click OK.
8.In the Account Settings dialog box, click Close.

Import items to new data file

1.On the File menu, click Import and Export.
2.Click Import from another program or file, and then click Next.
3.Click Personal Folders File (.pst), and then click Next.
4.In the File to import box, enter the path and file name of the .pst file that you want to import.
5.Under Options, select how you want duplicates to be processed, and then click Next.
6.Choose the folder that you want to import the .pst file from. If you want to import the entire .pst file, click the

topmost folder in the tree, and then select the Include subfolders check box.
7.Click Import items into the same folder in, and then select the destination .pst file in the drop-down list.
8.Click Finish.

With this you will be able to enjoy larger storage capacity in PST files of earlier versions. What would you do if your PST file gets corrupted? Obviously, you will try to repair Outlook PST file. This is achieved if you repair Outlook PST file in more sophisticated and accurate manner using Outlook Recovery software.

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