.PST Issue

[jayb132001]

Hello,

Hopefully someone can help point me in the right direction.

I received over 80GB worth of .pst files this morning.

We have two users within the company that need to be able to view these .pst files, and print them out with attachments.What is the best way to handle?

Normally, I would save the .pst file to users desktop and then open it as an "Outlook data file" within Outlook. However, I am afraid that files of this size may crash Outlook.

Should I create a "dummy" on the exchange server and load these .pst files to that account?

Please help! Thanks

 

[HDDLAB]

Sounds like an e-discovery issue to me. Without other software then you have to open each pst 1 at a time with outlook. You said you received 80GB worth of pst files so you don't open them all at the same time unless that is the goal let me know and I can point you to another tool.

 

[callthatgirl]

If you can open them in Outlook, do a Select A (to grab all) and right click and hit print. Everything should print fine. Lots of it though! LOL

 

[jayb132001]

Sounds like an e-discovery issue to me. Without other software then you have to open each pst 1 at a time with outlook. You said you received 80GB worth of pst files so you don't open them all at the same time unless that is the goal let me know and I can point you to another tool.

HDDLAB,

Thanks for the response. The 80GB of .pst files are split up between 10 files. One file in particular is over 40GB. Typically, we use an e-discovery platform called "Summation" to load stuff like this. However, the Attorneys working on this particular case have never used Summation and want to review within Outlook.

Do you know of another tool that will work like Outlook?

 

[jayb132001]

If you can open them in Outlook, do a Select A (to grab all) and right click and hit print. Everything should print fine. Lots of it though! LOL

CallThatGirl,

Thanks for the response. I can't wait to print all this! Should be fun

 

[HDDLAB]

Well I never said it was a tool that worked like Outlook but its another e-discovery tool that will de dupe and allow you to do searches its made by PinPoint Labs their "harvester" tool I own it works great for cases like this. Also you can get DT Search Desktop its approx 200.00 and it will index the pst files and make quick work on searches to find relevant e-mails etc. I work in forensics and data recovery and use it all the time on cases.

 

[rsarceno]

Outlook 2003 and later uses Unicode data format that has no theoretical size limit. But a Microsoft White paper recommends to archive pass 50Gb

So basically, just add data or import and print.