Thursday, November 11, 2010

Outlook .PST Files - Find the Size

HOW DO I FIND THE FILE SIZE OF MY .PST FILE IN OUTLOOK?

1. Find the personal folder you would like to find the size of and right-click on that personal folder.
2. Click on "Properties for "Your ,pst Name""
3. Click on "Folder Size"
4. Total folder size (including sub folders) will be listed in kilobytes (kb)
5. In general, kilobytes to megabytes to gigabytes looks like this:
- 1,000kb = 1mb (i.e. 16,500kb = 16.5mb)
- 100,000kb = 100mb
- 1,000,000kb = 1gb (i.e. 2,500,000kb = 2.5gb)
- A .pst file should be about 2gb to 4gb for better performance (4gb being the maximum size).
- Outlook will perform better when there are fewer .pst files open. The total open should be 2 to 3 .pst files at a time for maximum performance (assuming they follow the 2 to 4gb size above).


From Two Minute Training

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