A user gets “You don’t have appropriate permission to perform this operation” when trying to access e-mail from the POP3 mail server in Outlook 2003. However he can send out, and can view all acquired e-mails just fine. The .pst file is about 3.7 GB and I ran the database repair utility several times. Archiving doesn’t work. When I try to manually move files to the Archive PST file, I cannot compact the original Outlook.PST file. The user has full rights over the directory and the file it’s self.
I tried uninstalling Office and doing a reinstall but a new outlook.pst files would not be created.
Any help would be most appreciated
Thanks

Any PST over 2GB is very vulnerable to becoming corrupted.

Try splitting the pst into 2 files.
The larger the pst the more problems you will have.

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