2 Gb PST.....

2 GB PST......

Always check the size of your PST, or at least archive your email every now and then. Generally, you should be on the lookout to the health of your PST file. We can't afford to be interrupted with our work just because we can't access our e-mail. Just recently one of Pasona's staff was having problem accessing her email, it turned out that her PST has gone 2gb+ in size. So accessing her email was such a pain in the ass.

Fortunately microsoft has this tool called PST2GB. I copied the 2gb+ pst and downloaded the tool and installed it to one of our computers in the Matador Office.

Run the PST2GB as shown below.

Just click on Browse and locate the Original PST File. Next is Click on Create, this will be the name of the reduced PST file. By default the number of Megabytes to trim off the end is 25 MB. We have no choice but to delete part of your PST, our aim is to be able to open the pst - Email. In our case, I named the reduced pst to fixed, and deleted some 250MB. Then click on Start. The deletion process may take a couple of minutes or hours even depending on the speed of your machine.

After running the PST2GB tool, you need to run the INBOX REPAIR TOOL (SCANPST.exe), which can be found inside C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033\. See the picture below:

And again this may take an hour or two to finish repairing. You may encounter error along the way and it will ask you to make a backup copy of the reduced PST file, untick the (Make a backup). Click on Repair, wait a couple of minutes and the repairing process will be finished.

You are now all set to open the reduced PST file. Launch your Microsoft Outlook and Open the new pst file.

That's it.