*%@$#!!*% PST file

Onkel Neal · 06-10-15, 08:35 PM

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 · 06-10-15, 10:32 PM

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.

Onkel Neal · 06-10-15, 11:02 PM

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 and it seems to be what I needed to bring my email back to life.

Now to trim the fat a little and archive all those 1990's emails

d@rk51d3 · 06-11-15, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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.

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 · 06-11-15, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

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.

06-10-15, 08:35 PM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,383 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	%@$#!!% PST file 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 __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

06-10-15, 10:32 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

06-10-15, 11:02 PM	#3
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,383 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	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 and it seems to be what I needed to bring my email back to life. Now to trim the fat a little and archive all those 1990's emails __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web