Originally Posted by mikel51
Better watch out. Outlook doesn't like PST files bigger than 2 GB. I think the new versions just stop increasing file size. With MS Office 2000, the file corrupts and you lose data when the size is exceeded.
Outlook 2002 handles the 2GB file limitation very gracefully, and fully recovers.
Outlook 2003 doesn't have any arbitrary file size limitation, so long as you started with a new file, and did not upgrade from an earlier pst file version.