Outlook cannot open a .pst file of anything greater than 2Gbyte.
The recovery tool simply trims the file down to a size where Outlook will open it. Anything cut off is lost.
Been there, done that, had the earache off the user.
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The last thing they received was a series of emails with very big attachments and they knew where those came from. I only had to shave off 10 megs so little pain this time.