Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8247 posts, RR: 13 Posted (2 years 8 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 658 times:
I recently upgraded from Office 2002 to 2007, and last time I archived old mail it pushed the archive file over 2GB and now it won't open.
I have been doing some reading (dangerous, I know) and I see that 2007 uses a different file format that can have files up to 20GB. So I went looking online for a conversion tool but all the download sites have the same tool, pstupgrade.exe and my anti virus grabs it as malware.
Anyone got anything they can recommend from personal experience?
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ManuCH From Switzerland, joined Jun 2005, 2903 posts, RR: 52 Reply 3, posted (2 years 8 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 629 times:
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Quoting Andz (Reply 2): I haven't, but I think that if it was that easy it would be better described when I search for assistance!
I wouldn't bet on that. Make sure you have a backup of that PST file, then try using the Outlook 2007 import wizard. I believe I have read somewhere that it should work. And if it doesn't, there's nothing to lose...
COIAHLGW From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 154 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (2 years 8 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 596 times:
Have you heard of the scanpst.exe Microsoft utility that may be able to repair PST files? Try it on the backup of your PST file pre-upgrade, and see if it smooths along the process.
I tried that yesterday, I used the PST2GB utility which trims part of the offending pst file to get it below 2GB, then you run scanpst on it. Unfortunately I got an error during the process but I'll try it again.
Dragging data from the old files would be cool if they would open!
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