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Originally posted by Pragma
Well, actually the limit on PST files is (was? used to be?) 2GB.
Then we made them clean their shit up. It wasn't much fun, but at that point, who in the hell needs to have 2GB of saved e-mail available AT ALL TIMES? Archiving is your friend.
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I work tech support for a financial firm and because of the SEC, e-mails need to be archived for legal reasons.
That said, the limit on pst files is 2GB (or around 1.8Gb if you do a file size on the pst in outlook). Once it hits that limit, usually you will either get errors in outlook (the pst getting corrupted) OR you get an error when trying to add/delete e-mails in the archive. At this point usually we wind up creating a new archive for the user (they still need access to the old one (s)).
I can say that i have one user who has around 15 GB of archived e-mails (something like 10 psts that are over 1Gb and closer to the 2 Gb limit), and if he can't access the pst when he needs it boy do we need to fix that for him (yes he is a high level exec, not the same one that can't archive his e-mails though). So I can say that there are plenty of people that i support that need to have access to over 2GB of archived e-mails consistently.
I should make a mention that what usually kills the limit is the sheer amount of attachments (word docs, pdf's, powerpoint presentations, and excel files) that most of my users get.