Comments on: PST Recovery: An Overview http://www.gfi.com/blog/pst-recovery-overview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pst-recovery-overview Brought to you by GFI Software Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jane Parker http://www.gfi.com/blog/pst-recovery-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-29366 Jane Parker Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:03:25 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3272#comment-29366 Hello

Apart from hardware and software issues there is one more major issue of PST file which I would like to mention here. Outlook pst has file size limitation which causes problem. In Outlook 2002 and its earlier versions, if the .pst file size gets increased more than 2 GB then .pst file get corrupted. Also in later versions like Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003 if PST file size become large then it might slow down the performance of the Outlook. So keeping a check on the size of the .pst file is one major consideration.

Regards

Jane

]]> By: Craig http://www.gfi.com/blog/pst-recovery-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-29351 Craig Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:42:06 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3272#comment-29351 @Ken – I have learned that the most efficient way to teach guys like your IT guy a lesson about the importance of email archiving is to let important info get lost. Of course, you could keep a spare copy of it, so it won’t be lost for real – it will only look lost to scare him or her. The dumbest ones won’t learn the lesson but the ones that have at least one brain cell will. :) I am telling you this from experience – no matter how much you warn a dumb IT guy about the risks, he or she says this won’t happen to them and do nothing to prevent it.

]]> By: Ken Graham http://www.gfi.com/blog/pst-recovery-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-29115 Ken Graham Thu, 05 May 2011 16:38:42 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3272#comment-29115 I think I’ll be forwarding this article to our IT manager, who is constantly cracking down on people for “eating up space on the server” with their PST files.

Anything potentially necessary should always have a backup, and it is as true now as it was back when paper forms had to be filed in triplicate. PST files are a remarkably convenient way to kill several birds with one stone, and in the case of an outage, prevent any lasting damage.

Couldn’t agree more with your comment about email archiving, either. If you’ve got a backup of your backup, protected in different ways, odds are you won’t be the kind of person screaming and moaning about lost data should something happen to the network.

]]> By: Shawn@theEggIT http://www.gfi.com/blog/pst-recovery-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-29111 Shawn@theEggIT Thu, 05 May 2011 08:47:22 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3272#comment-29111 Aside from malwares, viruses, software bugs, and hardware / software crashes, PST-related errors can also occur when you’re using Vista service pack 1. Microsoft has already released the Service pack 2 to address problems related to OS update and Microsoft Office 2003-2007 patches.

Also, I totally agree with you on being a proactive user. Never wait for this problem to come. Be prepared and arm yourself with the right knowledge and information on how to avoid PST-related problems.

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