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From: thecreator on 20 May 2010 21:54 Hi All, Question: Is there a limit to the size of the InBox in Outlook 2007? Not its sub-folders, but the Inbox itself for the amount of messages it can handle? Also Outlook 2010 Inbox? Is it good practice to leave all Emails read or unread in the Inbox or move the emails once read to a different folder? -- thecreator
From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on 20 May 2010 22:48 thecreator wrote: > Hi All, > > Question: Is there a limit to the size of the InBox in Outlook 2007? > Not > its sub-folders, but the Inbox itself for the amount of messages it can > handle? Also Outlook 2010 Inbox? > > Is it good practice to leave all Emails read or unread in the Inbox or > move the emails once read to a different folder? > There is no limit to the number of messages you can have in a folder in a unicode pst (old pst formats are limited to 65,000) but most people feel the inbox is fastest with less than 3000 - 5000 messages in it. My personal preference - never mark as read automatically and keep in the inbox until I'm done with the message, then move to a "Completed" folder, just to get them out of my way. I typically have 1500 unread messages and another 500 read in the inbox Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Diane Poremsky [MVP]'s Profile: http://www.outlookforums.com/member.php?userid=2 View this thread: http://www.outlookforums.com/showthread.php?t=45465 http://www.outlookforums.com
From: VanguardLH on 21 May 2010 07:15 thecreator wrote: > Hi All, > > Question: Is there a limit to the size of the InBox in Outlook 2007? Not > its sub-folders, but the Inbox itself for the amount of messages it can > handle? Also Outlook 2010 Inbox? > > Is it good practice to leave all Emails read or unread in the Inbox or > move the emails once read to a different folder? There is no Inbox folder. There are no "folders" anywhere in Outlook. The tree hierarchy you see is to show how the records in the message store (a database) are categorized. They're still just records in a database. There are folders in the OS file system that pair up with "folders" in Outlook's message. While Microsoft calls records within each "folder" an item, the use of "[tree] node" just wouldn't sit well with users so Microsoft used the analogy of the file system that has folders and files to equate the organization shown in Outlook. The Inbox "folder" and all the others are in the same .pst file. It is never a good idea to use the Inbox folder for permanent storage. This is because it is the most changed folder which can lead to corruption in the database. If you want to hang onto items for awhile then create a user-defined "Holding" folder and move the semi-permanent items there. If you have e-mails that you permanently want to keep, create folders in the tree with a hierarchy and names that exhibit how you want them organized and move the e-mails there from the Inbox. It doesn't matter whether the items are marked as read or unread. Just get them out of Inbox folder if you're going to hang onto them for awhile.
From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 25 May 2010 12:48
"Evan Platt" <evan(a)theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message news:etrbv5dmjv01h7rqqqqfpvvd9rsbllrd0q(a)4ax.com... > Outlook 2007: 2 GB > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336/ You didn't read that article very well. Outlook 2003 and up have a 20GB PST limit just like Outlook 2010, not the 2GB limit that Outlook 2002 and earlier had. That's what the article you cited also says. Moreover, that article doesn't even address the OP's question, which concerned the size of Inbox, not the entire PST. The real answer is that the folder can hold at a minimum 64K messages and Microsoft doesn't publish a folder size limit. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |