Methods to Repair Oversized PST File Corruption

by buryshane On March 4, 2011 | Utilities | Hits: 362
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Outlook PST file gets corrupt due to many reasons. Exceeding the maximum size limit of PST file is one of the important reasons of such corruption. Different versions of Microsoft Outlook have different size limits like in MS-outlook 2002 and prior versions size limit is set to 2GB. However, for the other latest versions the size-limit is set up to 20 GB. To avoid such problem of PST file corruption due to oversize of PST file, a third party Outlook PST repair tool can be used to repair Outlook PST file instantly.

In MS-Outlook 2002 and earlier versions PST file size limitation is 2 GB and if the file exceeds the size limit, file gets corrupted. MS-Outlook starts behaving abruptly. Same is the case with the below error. If the user is using the PST file in MS-Outlook 2001 for Mac. The file exceeds the limit more than 2 GB and then the screen will definitely throws an error message like this:

“The file could not be added to the folder. The action could not be completed.”

On receiving above error message you cannot add new messages or items to the PST file.

Causes:

The main reason for the above error message is exceeding the size limit that is 2 GB. When you are using MS-Outlook 2002 for Mac if the PST file exceeds or crosses the 2 GB size limit, it will display an error on your screen.


Resolution:

Follow the below mentioned procedures to get the issue resolved.

If you have Outlook 2003 or higher versions on your computer, then you can convert the Oversized PST file into the new Outlook 2003.
Or
If you don't have Outlook 2003 or higher versions, then you can divide large PST file into the small PST files. As we know each file contains a part of the data in the original PST file, but it is less than 2GB that file can be used separately with Outlook 2002 or lower versions. This method is also not the better solution. For this, you need to manage multiple PST files after the splitting.

However, to resolve such issue you can go for a third party Outlook PST Recovery that recovers the Oversized PST file and restores the mail objects, such as e-mails, tasks, events, calendar-entries, journals and similar objects quite effectively.


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