Reduce the size of large PST files in Outlook 2010

The new improved Outlook 2010 comes up with a long list of features. It is included with enhanced storage capacity of 50 GB, better and improved GUI with exciting features, quick access to the commonly used options and many more. Despite of these great capabilities, the outlook 2010 PST files are not free from corruption issues. When the PST file size limit gets around 20 GB, it starts causing problems.

PST files is capable to store all the important personal documents of users like mails, appointments, contacts, notes, drafts, attachments and many more items. Since it contains all the important documents, these files should not be lost at any cost. But due to exceeding the PST file size limit in outlook 2010, there are probable chances of getting the data lost. So, in that situation, you need to try out some manual solutions that will help you in solving this problem:

First of all, deleting those items that are no longer in use

Save the attachments on to the file system folder and delete them from only one of its kind messages

Archiving of PST objects into a new outlook file

Use the PST crop tool that will cut down the size of the PST files. But while reducing its size, it may delete up some of your important documents, so cannot be served as the efficient one

Apart from these solutions, you can use Stellar Phoenix PST Splitter tool that will split large PST files using many criteria like split by date, folders or selective folders and make the size of PST file to a desirable level. To accomplish this task, you do not have to make much effort and the process gets completed only in a few minutes.