Comments on: Outlook 2007 Excessive file size http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/outlook-2007-excessive-file-size/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: colnar http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/outlook-2007-excessive-file-size/#comment-75978 colnar Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:18:24 +0000 #comment-75978 You could also save the older e-mails to an archive folder, which would reduce the size of the .pst file.

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/outlook-2007-excessive-file-size/#comment-75970 carlosdl Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:06:21 +0000 #comment-75970 Do you get an error message when using shift-delete ?
How about deleting (without shift) and then deleting the mails again from the deleted items folder ?

As for exceeding the max pst file size, the Unicode format for PST files introduced in Outlook 2003 doesn’t have the 2 GB size limitation.

Take a look at this article:

Convert an old PST to a Unicode PST

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