An Outlook PST keeps on piling with messages. This increases its size and can ultimately cause several performance and email related issues. In addition, Microsoft Outlook 2002 and its earlier versions restrict the PST file size to a default value of 2 GB. Though this file size value has been increased to 20 GB in its later versions, but performance issues are not an exception. Thus, you are suggested to always maintain the PST file size. The recommended steps are to keep deleting the undesired email messages, compact and archive the PST file and perform PST Split.Consider an instance when you try to import your PST using import wizard. The operation may fail and you may receive some errors, similar to below:
“Unknown exception occured, leaving the Migration process.
Exception Address: 0×40191b”
Cause
The above symptoms can occur if the PST is of quite large size, usually consisted of thousands of email messages and several number of folders.
Solution
You can try these suggestions to overcome the issue of large PST while importing:
You should first the check the file for consistency. A large PST has high odds to get corrupt. If you can open the file, you can delete the unwanted email contents from it. You can also empty the Deleted Items folder and later compact the file. PST doesn’t frees up the space until you compact it.
You can create several new PSTs and drag the items to them. In this way, you can divide your large PST into smaller ones according to your requirements.
The above method may not be viable to a PST consisting of thousands of emails. To divide such PST easily and safely, you should use a PST File Splitter.
The third-party PST Split applications prove to be most suitable tools to divide a single PST into several smaller parts. These tools guide you through an easy installation procedure and instruct easy steps to split the PST file. You get few smaller files, each of which is directly usable with Outlook.
Stellar Phoenix PST File Splitter is an advanced and comprehensive PST File Splitter with interactive design and safe procedures to split the file. The tool supports Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It incorporates suitable algorithms to perform split PST operation. The software enables to view messages in 3-pane structure, which resembles the look of Outlook.