I have a very large .pst file (almost 22,000 items) with internet fax (.tiff) files, internet voicemail (.wav) files, and tons of graphic images (.jpg). When I try to load the .pst into FTK and Paraben it's shear size crashes the programs!
I need to be able to provide all 22,000 items to my client for their review and navigation. Loading the .pst into Outlook for my client won't work because the file contains several viruses.
Any ideas? I'm fresh out!
Thanks in advance for anything!
Lyn
Try LoPe -very good tool for e-mail examination.
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How big is the file in GB?
Have you tried EnCase?
I wonder if that one crashes as well.
Maybe the pst is corrupted? Have you ran scanpst on it?
I've seen this before in Outlook itself. Is the PST file greater in size than 2GB? If it is, this is probably the cause of the problem.
Most of the older internal Windows file routines use a 31 bit number which is around 2GB, which crashes any program that uses these file calls.
I'm only guessing, but that may be causing the crash.
Lynita,
This link may provide some insight…
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It references the tool utilized to truncate the PST, so that it restabalizes; the tool PST2GB can be downloaded here
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Regards,
Rob lol
Hi Lyn,
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Open a hex editor and change the first few bytes, then run scanpst on it. You may need to do that a few times, but it has worked in the past.
Why haven't you sent the file off to a data recovery company?
Hi,
We have had similar problems in mounting pst files in EnCase. It was found that a 2GB pst file needed about 3GB of RAM as the whole file needed to be loaded and kept purely in system memory and could not page from the pagefile.
If you've aleady thrown a very powerful PC with lots of memory at the problem and you've tried exporting out the pst and loading it into your own Outlook to examine that way then it could well be a problem within the file causing the crash.
Steve
Lynita,
Another possible cause for problems with PST files is the method the file was created. I have seen Exmerge (in combination with a BlackBerry RIM server) produce some non-compliant PST files. Most tools fail to handle these types of PST files.
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The 2GiB (2^31) issue is an old one. Mainly occurs with older software.
Also note that most of these recover tools will alter your PST file.
Some days ago I opened my MS Outlook and couldn't find my new emails. But I didn't know what to do next. And suddenly a friend called me up and recommended me an curious software.
What an amazing coincident! At that point I would have said screw Outlook and grilled my friend how they knew what I was thinking and doing!! Yes curious….curious indeed - to the Batmobile! This requires further investigation!
Or mutu26 is posting spam…