Microsoft KB Archive/231283

= OL98: Body Property Limited to 64 KB on Windows 95/98 =

Article ID: 231283

Article Last Modified on 7/31/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q231283





SYMPTOMS
You have an item that stores a large amount of text in the Message or Notes field, and when you programmatically access the data using the Outlook object model, only part of the data is retrieved.



CAUSE
This is a limitation of using Outlook on a computer running Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98.



RESOLUTION
Use one of the following methods to work around the problem:


 * Use the Windows NT operating system. This limitation does not exist on a Windows NT system.

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 * Redesign the Outlook form solution to ensure that there is always less than 64 KB of textual data in the Message or Notes field.



MORE INFORMATION
Assume for example, that you have 65 K of data in the Message field of a mail message. The Message field is equivalent to the Body property in the Outlook object model. If you reference the Body property, the length will be 1 KB and the text returned will be the first 1 KB of the 65 KB that is actually there.

