Have you ever noticed that sometimes processing of Outlook becomes quite slow. Moreover, it stops accepting more data in it. Such kind of behavior gives us a hard time. While working with Outlook always keep track about the size limitation. MS-Outlook 2002 and earlier versions of Outlook uses ANSI format and have a size limit of 2 GB, whereas Outlook 2003 and later versions uses UNICODE format. Once, PST file crosses set size limit, it leads to PST file corruption. So, to avoid inconvenience it is advisable to delete all the unwanted items. You have another option of a third party PST file splitter software.
Let us discuss above issue, clearly. Suppose, in Outlook you have some custom contact folder with some contact sub folders within it. Additionally, you have installed custom contact form and configures the custom contact folder as the default for the remaining contact folders. When you make an attempt to add more contacts to these contacts folder of Outlook, PST file does not allows you to perform the operation. Let us try to find out the cause why PST file simply refuses?
You fail to add some more contacts in the contact folder because it might be possible that size of Outlook contacts is quite large and it fails to accept more contacts in it.
To get past of above problem, you have to follow the below stated measures. These measures include:
- First of all, check your Outlook e-mail account for unwanted e-mails and contacts. Once you found them, simply delete all of them. Delete them from 'Deleted Items' folder also. You know that Outlook PST file acts as a database for Outlook. So, removing the e-mails and contacts will not bring a major change on the size of the file. So, it becomes necessary to apply compaction after deletion of Outlook objects.
- Another option is to apply archive operation on PST items. Archiving means to transfer few items of one PST to some other Outlook PST.
- The best and effective way to decrease the size of Outlook PST file is to use a third party Split PST File software. Through such tools, you can easily divide large Outlook PST file into number of small files. You can split PST file that is bulky and is giving problem to you. It is a good method to overcome the problem of large Outlook PST file among all others. You can use these software on any size of PST file.
Stellar Phoenix PST File Splitter is a prominent tool that is developed to split PST file both single and multiple. Also the data in pst file remains unaffected after splitting. This PST splitter splits the file on the basis of date, time size, e-mail ID and folders. PST Splitter is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).
