Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is having the most advanced features that are developed by Microsoft that are necessary in a personal information manager. It has email, calendar, web browsing, notes and many other things that people always need in order to maintain their information. Still people have encountered the performance issues. Not only in MS Outlook 2007 but in all the versions of outlook it is seen that after sometimes outlook slows down. It is possible that Outlook stops responding during typical operations.
Other symptoms are noticeable while mail delivery or during synchronization. Developers find out the reason behind this behavior and found that it happens when the size of the .PST file approaches 2 Gigabytes (GB). In addition they are more pronounced in very large .PST file which is generally sizes 4GB or larger. So the cause is the big size of PST files that makes Outlook slow.
Microsoft gives the solution in their support Article that says if you split large PST file into several smaller .PST files then the slow performance issues will be over. The steps to split large PST files are:
- Use the Archive feature to move items to a new .PST file. For that the steps are:
- In Outlook 2007, select the large .PST file in navigation pane
- Go to file menu > Archive
- In Archive Dialog Box, click to select Archive this folder and all subfolders check box and then click a folder from list
- In the Archive items Older than drop down box, click on date
- Click on Browse, choose the path, file name for new .pst file and then click on OK
Note: The new .pst file is displayed in the Mail Folders list as Archive Folders
- If you want to change the display name for this .PST file then,
- Right Click on Archive Folders and click on Properties
- In Archive Folder Properties dialog box, click on Advanced
- In Personal Folders dialog box enter the new display name in the Name box
- Click on OK two times to return to Outlook
- Use the Move to Folder feature to move items to a new .PST file. For this the steps are:
- On File Menu, point to New and click Outlook Data File
- In New Outlook Data File dialog box, click Office Outlook Personal Folders File (.PST) and click OK
- Select the Path and file name for new .PST File
- In the Create Microsoft Personal Folders dialog box, specify the display name of the .PST file in the Name box. This name is used in Mail Folders List
- In the Folder that contains the items that you want to move to a new .PST file, click one or more items to move
- Click Edit > Move to Folder
- In Move Item Dialog Box, click New
- In Create New Folder dialog box enter a name for the new folder in the Name Box
- Under Select Where to place the folder, click the new .PST file and then click OK
- In the Move Items dialog box, make sure that the new folder in the new .PST file is selected and then click OK
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