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Outlook 2016 Personal file using format Outlook Data File (97-2002)
Windows 7 x64 Office Professional 2016
I just found out that my Outlook is using Personal file format Outlook Data File (97-2002) which means ANSI according to what I've learnt. I wanted to change it to the UNICODE format that's been in use since 2003.
I am confused however by these facts about my outlook folders. The archive.pst file is 3+ GB in size and uses a file format of Outlook Data File, which would indicate it is already saved as UNICODE format since ANSI is limited to 2 GB. However the file location is User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook which I gather is the old ANSI format storage location which is different from the UNICODE storage location. The file properties indicate the archive.pst file was created on March 23, 2013 with format type Outlook Data File.
The outlook.pst file was also created March 23, 2013 with format Outlook Data File (97-2002).
So what does this mean? Are these files ANSI, or is one ANSI and one UNICODE?