An Overview of Outlook PST File Corruption and Soultion

Running Microsoft Outlook application can be experienced significantly faster than other online e-mail service like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. However, many of us may not be know the reason of the accelerated performance. All data of users in MS Outlook are stored in a outlook data (.pst) file locally, which allows users to access data more easier and quicker. In other words, we can say that a .pst file is the repository of the entire mailbox data like emails, contacts, address books, attachments, tasks, calender entries, and more. Moreover, this personal storage file is portable and can be easily transferred from one computer to another.




Symptoms of Outlook PST corruption

Many times outlook users encounter situations in which a .pst file gets corrupt and users have to encounter devastating situations of their precious data loss. As I have read comments of outlook users on many websites and blogs regarding the problems in MS Outlook like Unable to access data, Unable to open PST file, Uable to send/receive e-mails and others. Such problems occur due to the corrupted items in outlook .pst file.

Following are some general symptoms which indicates the corruption in PST file:

A) When you attempt to open your MS Outlook application, you get the following error message:


"The file xxx.pst is not a personal folders file"


B) You face an error message, as stated below, when you open Outlook program:

"The file xxx.pst could not be found"

OR

"Unable to display the folder. The file xxx.pst could not be accessed. Access denied"

Corruption in PST file is very serious problem and does not let you perform typical task in MS Outlook. When corruption situation happens in MS Outlook, PST file becomes completely unusable and you may face serious data loss.

In addition to the above described Outlook errors on the attempt of opening MS Outlook, you may encounter more serious error messages.

Problems in Outlook PST File:

As already mentioned above that PST file is stored at the client side or locally. Several hardware, software, and Adds on issues affect the data saved in Outlook PST file.

Software problems:

These causes include the virus and malware infections in Outlook .pst file. It also include abnormal termination of Add-ons and MS outlook application.

Hardware Problems

Failure of the storage media and other hardware components may sometimes lead to the corruption in PST file. Sharing PST file over the network may also give the birth to corruption in Outlook.

Another cause, responsible for the corruption is oversized PST file.


How to Repair Outlook PST file:

In order to read and access of your valuable items in MS Outlook, you need to figure out the exact cause of corruption and to carry out PST repair successfully. You can try fixing the corruption issue using scanpst.exe utility or by restoring the .pst fiel from latest backup. If these methods do not work, you should go for a third party tool to repair and restore the emails and other data in MS Outlook.

Outlook PST repair is competent utility to deeply analyzing the PST file and to fix it. This third party tool comes equipped with rich and interactive GUI to perform easy .pst file recovery from corrupted or damaged MS Outlook.