There are two file formats of MS Outlook that is the OST and PST formats. But if we further investigate then PST has been diversified into formats that is the ANSI and UNICODE. The ANSI format is the older format than the UNICODE. It also has the less storing capacity than UNICODE.
Leading to further discussion the ANSI PST files can only have the maximum storage capacity of 2 GB and if the data comes nearer to 2 GB then the chances of corruption to the files becomes higher. But this doesn’t happens with UNICODE formats as they have the capacity of holding data up to 20 GB.
If a person is using Outlook 2002 then it becomes difficult for him to view the UNICODE file formats as only the ANSI formats are compatible with the Outlook version 2002. There can be another problem if the person splits PST files and the wants the 20 GB data into different file small sizes then it would be convenient for him to switch to ANSI formats.
This can be only possible if the user tries a UNICODE to ANSI converter tool. There are many tools and the user can opt any one of them.
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