Archive.pst has reached its maximum size

Upon archiving, I got the following message:

Error while archiving folder “[folder name]” in store “Personal Folders”.
The file [path]\archive.pst has reached its maximum size. To reduce the amount of data in this file, select some items that you no longer need, and then permanently delete them by pressing SHIFT+DELETE. You could also consider using the new Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst) introduced with Outlook 2003 that provides greater capacity for storing items and folders.

How do I use the “new Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst)” to increase archive size?

Upon archiving, I got the following message:

Error while archiving folder “[folder name]” in store “Personal Folders”.
The file [path]\archive.pst has reached its maximum size. To reduce the amount of data in this file, select some items that you no longer need, and then permanently delete them by pressing SHIFT+DELETE. You could also consider using the new Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst) introduced with Outlook 2003 that provides greater capacity for storing items and folders.

How do I use the “new Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst)” to increase archive size?

To create an archive in the new (Unicode) format requires you to disconnect and rename your current archive file;

  1. Disconnect your archive.pst via File-> Data File Management…
    Make sure you take note of its current location.
  2. Close Outlook.
  3. Browse to the location of archive.pst and rename it to for instance: archive2009.pst

The next time that AutoArchive runs, it will automatically create a new archive.pst file but this time in the new Unicode format.

You can reconnect your original archive (archive2009.pst) to Outlook via;
File-> Open-> Outlook Data File…

Note: If you want, you can consolidate the archive2009.pst archive with the newly created one via this method.

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