See How to Repair and Compact PST File when Encountered ‘Outlook cannot open the file'

Out of many advantageous features, one of the best features of MS Outlook is presence of Outlook PST file. Outlook PST file is a repository of your mailbox data on your local system. Whether they are emails, contacts, or any other information of your mailbox, all is stored on your PST file as well. However, the PST file has size limitation that varies according to the Outlook version. The early Outlook versions, until Outlook 2002, have storage capacity of 2GB, whereas the later versions until Outlook 2007 have improved it to 20GB.

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Easy mechanism to compress Outlook 2007 file

Microsoft Outlook 2007 has an advantage of size limitation of PST file up to 20 GB. But this advantage of Outlook can turn out to be a biggest disadvantage when it leads to PST File corruption due to oversize of the PST file. Because of large file limitation people usually oversize the PST files and due to this PST file gets corrupted. This creates lot of issues in the Outlook due to which are not able to access the PST files properly.

Sometimes while working on Outlook you may witness a message asking to” Reduce the size of your Outlook data” and near to the message there will be an option showing to Compact now. This is a Utility provided by Microsoft Outlook to compact the PST file when its size starts to increase.

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Manage Outlook PST file with Compact PST Software

Compacting a PST file is an important technique for keeping the Outlook data file (.pst) safe. Due to the size limitation of PST file when performance issues arises with Outlook then this practice of compacting the file helps a lot. However, this task can be accomplished manually or with the use of software. This can be in two cases:

1. In Outlook 2002 and its earlier version which uses ANSI(American National Standards Institute) format which has PST file limitation up to 2GB . So in this case if the file size of the Outlook tends to exceed this limit then there is a chance of PST corruption. 

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