Re: Outlook Express 6 - mailbox size

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:48:33 -0600

"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:OqzwEmkFEHA.744@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
> Parry - Where did you get that idea from? They can be much larger!!
>
> Ivan - There are no Outlook Express limits on size. The limits will
> be windows / hardware imposed depending on what you have.
>
> The problems you will encounter with overlarge files in Outlook
> Express are your system will at some point start to struggle handling
> them. You will find opening large newsgroups and switching between
> newsgroups takes noticeably longer. Compacting can take a long time,
> and if not done the problems become even more apparent.
>
> Whilst performance problems with newsgroups do not affect many users,
> overlarge mail folders will affect most if they do not address the
> issue. A bloated inbox will result in slow opening of Outlook
> Express, if the preferred option to open to the Inbox is selected.
> All folders to which messages are automatically moved or copied are
> more prone to corruption and the Inbox, Sent Items and Deleted Items
> folders are notable in this respect. The best way to address this
> issue is not to store messages in these locations.
>
> If the location for storing dbx folders becomes restricted you will
> encounter "low memory" messages if the swap folder is in the same
> location (drive/partition). If the swap file is elsewhere I suspect (
> do not know ) you will get a message saying the (hard) drive is full.
>
> If a drive is reaching the stage where it is 80% full you can start
> to encounter various performance issues. In Windows XP if the free
> space is below 15% you gets warnings that Disk Defragmenter will not
> work. Actually you can see signs in Disk Defragmenter with more than
> 15% free. With large files a single file will go together as two or
> more fragments, which may go together on a further running of Disk
> Defragmenter. Having observed this phenomenon in Windows XP I suspect
> it was occurring in Windows 98 but I was not aware of it. I do not do
> much CD burning but I think those who do can encounter the same type
> of issue -namely insufficient free space.
>
>
> "Parry" <pradeepkumark@hyd.brigade.com> wrote in message
> news:OaNpuTjFEHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> As far as i know it is 2 GB.
>>
>>
>> "Ivan T Williams" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:10efe01c41624$e8229230$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Does anyone know the max size a folder or the total size
>>> of the storage location in Outlook Express can be?

Gerry,
There is a 2 GB limit on DBX file size. 

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