OL2k file size…

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I’m soon going to take the plunge and get a Palm, Handspring, or whatever. Main reason is to have Outlook available at all times.
My “.pst” file hovers between 25-30,000 Kb. Do the pocket PCs use memory differently, or only download parts of the pst file? How much memory do I need, leaving room for growth?
Opinions (jaded or otherwise!) on whose making the best units would be appreciated too.
Thanks in advance.

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Windows CE allows you to select what mail messages you synch with your palmtop. The default behaviour is to synch

• Just the inbox
• Just the first 500 bytes of each message
• Just items received in the past 5 days
• No attachments
  [/list]You can change all of these settings to suit your needs, but I don’t think you’re going to be able to download your entire 30MByte PST file.

  StuartR

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I can do without email on the go – my main concern would be my calendar (a few hundred entries) and contacts list (about 1000 entries). Am I in the wrong ballpark, or can any of them handle this?

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I sync my calendar (many entries) and my contacts (less than a hundred entries). My previous reply was just referring to filtering of mail messages.

StuartR

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My PST file is 46,080 kb in size. I sync the calendar and contacts without any problem. I keep very little email.

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Thanks – now how much free memory in “palmtop” do I need to accomodate a file that big? Same as a laptop? Can other elements of Office, limited as they might be, be running simultaneously? I seem to see only total memory advertised; how much free RAM is what I might be after?

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On my IPaq, I can see the free memory from Start > Settings > System > Memory. It appears as two categories, Storage and Program. Each has figures for Allocated, In Use and Free. Even with all my contacts, calendar, quite a lot of mails (first 500 bytes only) and a few assorted documents I am only using 8MBytes of Storage.

StuartR

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Thanks. I guess the total program memory usage is very different with the “palmtops”.

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And you’re working with how much free memory on the “palmtop” ?

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