2gb limit and corruption with UNICODE format

[Jadestar]

SO I decided to google today to see if Outlook 2010 would remove the 2gb pst file limit to prevent large pst files from becomming corrupted and to my surprise, this has been fixed sine outlook 2003.

Apparently, in outlook 03,07 and 2010 if your pst file is unicode then its limits are 20gb instead of 2gb.

The problem I have is that I am sure I have seen corrupted pst files that were over 2gb and in office 03 or 07. I'm also fairly sure that not all of those in question were upgraded from older versions and thus still in ANSI format (the format that has the 2gb limit)

SO my question is...am i crazy? is it possible i'm just thinking I've seen 2gb limit corruption in 07 but thye were all older formats?

I'm trying to wrap my head around this because we always tell people to keep their files under 2gb to prevent corruption and one guy was scared out of his wits when I told him what would happen....he was using 2007 at the time and paid us to split his pst file into 3 seperate files to get it under 2gb (it wasnt that expensive but i still feel bad)

Any thoughts?

[allen2]

The 2GB limit is only for the older format and yes since 2003 native outlook 2003 pst files.

The corruption might still happen for networked pst files but i never local pst files getting corrupted since using the new file format.