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MS Outlook is one of the best storage medium for personal information for both individual as well as professional users. It stores all your important emails, journals, contacts, calendar, notes, etc with .pst extensions. Earlier versions of Outlook application follows ANSI format to store PST files which has a file size limit of 2GB. However with the regular use of application it exceeds 2 GB file size limit or it is about to cross the size limit. In such cases it becomes necessary for users to split large PST files into smaller files. To perform this task there comes PST2gb.exe tool which divide PST files in smaller files.
If you will not split the large PST file, it exceeds 2GB file size limit and restricts you from accessing your important files and folders stored in Outlook application. It will not allow you to send or receive any emails. When you try to access your stored information you will be have to encounter several error messages. Some of the common error messages are:
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“Outlook.pst can not be accessed-0x80040116
- “Outlook.pst can't be found”
- “An unknown error has occurred-0x8004119”
- “PST has reached maximum size limit”
- “Oversized Error”
So, in order to avoid such situations it is necessary to split oversized PST files with PST2gb.exe tool. It splits the PST files securely and very effectively. You can easily download this tool from Microsoft's download center. To Break large PST files you have to follow the steps given below:
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First of all search for the PST files on which truncation has to be done.
- Then, Click Start>Run>type path\pst2gb.exe -s and then click 'OK'.
- Now, click continue and click Browse.
- Select the PST file you want to split and then click on open.
- Now create a new unique file name for PST file in the file name box and save.
- After that click on start and after the work finishes click on close.
This way you will be able to split the 2GB PST file in smaller files. But PST2gb.exe tool has some limitations like you must have some free hard disk space of 2GB to use the tool. It only truncates the PST files within 2GB file size limit. It also deletes some messages from the recovered copy while performing the task. In order to improve the performance of Outlook for manging large PST file you can go through third party PST repair tool. It follows highly advance algorithm to split large PST files securely and effectively.
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