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A personal store (pst) file is an Outlook data storage file, not an Exchange data storage file. The 2GB size limit on .pst files is in all versions of Outlook (and the Exchange client) prior to Outlook 2003; in other words, Outlook 2002 (sometimes referred to as Outlook XP) and earlier have a max size of 2GB for the personal store file.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 no longer has this limit and offers a theoretical limit of 33 Terabytes. Other changes have been made to the .pst and offline store (OST) architecture in Outlook, as well. For example, the old format had a limit of 64,000 items per folder whereas the new format supports unlimited items. Finally, the old format uses ANSI to store data whereas the Outlook 2003 .pst data is stored in UNICODE.
If you are using or switch to Outlook 2003, you can convert your old .pst file to the new format. To do this, you can create a new .pst file that uses the new format and then either:
1. Open both files in Outlook 2003 and drag-and drop the folders from the old file to the new file.
2. Use the Outlook Import Wizard to move the data. See the Outlook help file for details on how to do this.
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