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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
With each e-mail you receive or send inMS Outlook, its data file called PST keeps on expanding. A huge PSTnot only makes Outlook slow, but also makes the PST file susceptibleto corruption. PST file corruption is more likely when it is an ANSIPST, that is used in MS Outlook 2002 and earlier versions. Apart fromdeleting the undesired items andcompacting the file, another effective way to reduce the sizeof PST is to Split PST File.Consider,an Outlook user suddenly encounters a bloated PST because of anunexpected event. He had a custom contact folder with few contactsub-folders. Further, he/she had installed a custom contact form andconfigured it as default for the rest of the contact folders. Whenhe/she tried to add contacts to the contact folders programmatically,the PST file size grew dramatically to a great extent. Theabove behavior might result if the size of contacts is too large orthere are problems in the code that is copying those contacts to thecontact folder of Outlook PST. SolutionToreduce the overall size of a bloated Outlook PST, you should adoptone of the following measures:(1)Open Outlook PST and check e-mails, contacts, etc. that you findunnecessary and can be deleted. Move those items to Deleted Itemsfolder and empty the folder. Since Outlook PST is a database,deleting the items will have minor effect on the file size. So, youneed to compact the file after deleting the items.(2)Create a new PST and move some of your items to this new PST. Theprocess is termed as PST archiving and is effective when the PSTsize is not too large.(3)Use a SplitPST Software anddivide your large PST file into several smaller files. SplitPST utilitiesare safe to use with their read-only algorithms and can work for anysize of Outlook PST. Stellar Phoenix PST File Splitter isa secure utility that is used to split a large Outlook PST createdwith MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. This Split PSTFile softwarecandivide the file on the basis of e-mail ID and message date and iscompatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.
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