Unknown error 0x80040116 - What is it and How to Fix this Error in MS Outlook?

Microsoft Outlook is used for managing email communication along with organizing other objects of Outlook like tasks, calendar entries etc. Everything works smoothly until and unless you receive an error reported in Outlook or when Outlook shows unusual behavior. You make strong efforts to identify the reason behind this but no results as the real cause of such behavior of Outlook is the PST file corruption.


What is 0x80040116 error code in MS Outlook ?

As Outlook keep all its objects like emails, contacts, notes and tasks etc in a .pst file. Therefore it is very important to manage properly the Outlook .pst file. Due to various reasons the PST file gets corrupted. This includes virus infection, faulty hardware devices, abrupt system shutdown or pst file size increased more than 2 GB etc. Once the .pst file gets damaged you may receive several error messages. One of these error messages can be shown as below:

Error message :

Outlook.pst can not be accessed - 0x80040116







or

Unknown error - 0x80040116

This error shows that Outlook .pst file get damaged and you need to repair it. As .pst file is the repository of all the important outlook objects so it is required to keep the backup of .pst file. Also take necessary prevention steps like compact pst and split .pst file to not to get a PST file oversize. But if you have not maintained the backup and PST file is still corrupted then you can use other utilities to repair .pst file.

How to Fix Outlook Unknown error - 0x80040116 ?
Outlook has an inbuilt utility to repair corrupted .pst file which is called Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe). This utility gets installed with Outlook itself. The default location of Scanpst.exe is C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\103. Also it could be different depending on the various operating systems. Once you find the scanpst.exe utility, run this utility to scan the corrupted .pst file on your system. This might show you some errors and ask you to fix by clicking on Repair button. Before clicking repair, make the backup of .pst file.

After the repair process is complete, you may receive the recovered .pst file. But due to the certain limitations of Scanpst.exe sometimes you may receive the same corrupted .pst file. Therefore, Outlook PST recovery is essential as all your important Outlook data are stored in it. To repair the corrupt .pst file you can try an third party tool, which could help in recovering Outlook data in their original format. You need to evaluate the software based on its features and capability to recover Outlook file. Even for severe PST file corruption the tool works very efficiently.