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Luiz Abdala
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Outlook PST files larger than 2GB.

Oh the joy of Outlook... 2000 I think.

So it was the era of Powerpoint attachments to mail. Some guys had PST files for just the funny PPT's.

I quickly learned that:

- Exchange had a pretty limited inbox size back then. Only Managers had a 20MB space on the server. All the PST files were instructed to wipe the server and keep them offline on the luser machine. So everybody had PST's running.

- The file only shrunk if you deleted the mail, cleaned the trash bin, and then use an Outlook tool called something like COMPRESS or OPTIMIZE, that actually shrunk the PST file. Otherwise, even the trash folder was still encoded there. Off I went, using that tool to save most sluggish Outlooks from keeling over.

- The file still worked up to 2.1GB. Guess how I learned that. You couldn't click anything besides emptying the trash, or Outlook would freeze. Guess how I found about that either.

Eventually the problem got away.

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