*%@$#!!*% PST file

[Onkel Neal]

You know, you would think Microsoft would include a simple warning popup in its Outlook email program when your PST file approaches the 2GB file limit. Instead, my email is locked up in a 4GB PST file :/\\!!

[Sailor Steve]

I've never used Outlook, and never will. Why? I don't really know. I use a small homepage with their own email system that someone else turned me onto a very long time ago.

On the other hand I'm in the habit of dumping all my emails just as soon as they've served their purpose, so if my system has a limit I've never come close to it. :sunny:

[Onkel Neal]

I depend on email in a lot of ways, Subsim being part of it. I've always liked the power of an email program, but it seems MS would at least put in a small "Engine Hot" marker to warn the user when something critical is about to kill the program.

I got this PST Recovery program (http://www.sysinfotools.com/recovery/pst-recovery.html) and it seems to be what I needed to bring my email back to life. :woot: Now to trim the fat a little and archive all those 1990's emails :oops:

[d@rk51d3]

On the other hand I'm in the habit of dumping all my emails just as soon as they've served their purpose, so if my system has a limit I've never come close to it. :sunny:

As long as you're not using Thunderbird. Your deleted email, isn't actually deleted, and just gets hidden in an ever increasing file............ apparently.

[Onkel Neal]

As long as you're not using Thunderbird. Your deleted email, isn't actually deleted, and just gets hidden in an ever increasing file............ apparently.

You know, I think the same thing happens in Outlook. When the forensic tools finished recovering my PST file, there were folders and emails in there that I am sure I deleted years ago.:hmmm: