Solve large volume PST issues with Oversized PST crop utility tool

MS Outlook basically is a Personal Information Manager that is used for sending/receiving of mails, saving contacts, notes, and tasks and creating calendar entries etc. But as it is known that Outlook 2002 and earlier versions support 2GB PST file size and the files exceeding the limit leads to slow performance issues and even PST corruption In that case you can make use of oversized PST crop utility or PST Repair tool.

To demonstrate the situation, consider an example where you are encountering many problems due to oversized PST file in Outlook 2000 such as Outlook slow performance and various errors. So, you need to split 2GB PST file as quickly as possible.

In order to reduce the size of the large PST files, you can use PST crop tool that works to truncate the file by a specified value and then you can further use the file easily. To use this tool, go through the following steps:

• Just download the tool and extract 2gb152.exe file to an empty folder
• Five files named Msstdfmt.dll, Msvbvm60.dll, Pst2gb.exe, Readme.rtf, and Readme.txt will get listed. Start Pst2gb.exe file
• Then after, browse the location where the oversized PST file is located and carry on the cropping PST process
• Indicate the amount of data to be truncated and also mention the destination location to store the truncated file.
• Then use Inbox repair tool so as to check its integrity

But there are certain limitations with this tool like:

• Requires at least 2GB of free hard disk space to make a copy of the PST file
• The amount of data truncated gets deleted and there is no surety that they will be recovered.

So, instead of oversized PST crop utility, it’s better to use Split PST tool that will divide the large volume Outlook files with almost no limitations. It gives you the option to split the files on various criteria and completes the process without taking much of your time.