Outlook 2001 personal folder can't open.

I want to open an Outlook 2001 created personal folder which showed me
"Errors have been detected in the personal folders file", I found the folder
size is about 2Gbyte. so could somebody give me a hand to solve this
problem...


thanks
Jack

In article <uE4NCv1gFHA.3216 DeleteThis @TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>,
"Jack" <tojackcheng DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

> I want to open an Outlook 2001 created personal folder which showed me
> "Errors have been detected in the personal folders file", I found the folder
> size is about 2Gbyte. so could somebody give me a hand to solve this
> problem...

Hi jack!

I think you may have hit a limit with the 2GB file.

However, I believe the .pst file is a database format file, which means
it can probably be rebuilt and compacted.

Outlook 2001 does not come with a repair tool but Outlook for Windows
does. The .pst file formats between Outlook 2001 for Mac and Outlook
2000 for Windows are similar and the repair tool can work on the Mac
file. If you can't find someone with Outlook 2000 you can try the repair
on a later version of Outlook for Windows.

Good luck! bill
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William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)