large pst and ost files

[jogold]

Wait till they get the bill. Then stage two will be redoing the whole approach.
Or keep making money just cleaning up.
Both pay the bills.

 

[TazUk]

So I used mailstore to synch the mail. It can only sync the inbox.... so I had to do this insane shuffle where I'd push things around, sync the inbox, push more things around. IT was a massive waste of time and dangerous. And harder to find things when you actually did end up needing them.

Are you sure we are talking about the same product

I've used MailStore at one of my customers initially to archive old emails on a local Exchange server and then for their Office 365 mailboxes and it does all the folders.

It comes with a standalone client and an Outlook plugin so pretty easy for the users to locate their old emails.

I've also used the free Home version to back up some personal IMAP accounts and that backed up everything.

 

[NETWizz]

I didn't even know there was a limit, but I guess it is a good thing I occasionally delete 100,000 emails here and there and even compact the file.

I suppose the new Outlook may handle it better when it does not download an entire OST file.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

A business (multi million dollar business.....) didn't want to spend the money to get proper business class email.

Microsoft exchange eliminates all that. You can enable and use the archive mailbox after you hit the 100GB, up to 1.5TB

I'd lean on the archive mailbox feature of the Business 365 ecosystem.

If you are on the Biz 365 space and using Exchange 365, I'd just leverage the built in mechanisms. My personal opinion.

Yup. Amazing how thing "just work..and work well"....when you use the right tools for the job in the first place.

 

[jogold]

Sorry, but one last question,
They have folders and subfolders going down three and four levels.
During the course of Moving from folder to folder when including subfolders and Importing from backed up PST files they have some Subfolders with 2 and 3 that have nested in them the correct subfolders. See attached screenshots.)
We're not sure how to continue with the Moving and Importing because these new Subfolders (that have more subfolders) are getting doubled up with a number.
It looks like:
Moving from one place to another allows for doubles and the lower level Subfolder gets called with another number.
Importing without doubles only saves that level from doubles but the subfolders will get doubled up with the number.
Leaving us with the need to do the restore from the lowest level moving upwards for each higher folder.
(Did you get that? I barely did. And I'm rewriting it again and again to keep it simple.)

So thankful for the help.