Microsoft Outlook is a popular email client that comes as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft has included many features in it, making it one of the versatile applications that Microsoft has ever produced. Generally, Microsoft Outlook uses the PST file format to store the Outlook information like contacts, emails, schedules etc. PST is abbreviated as Personal Storage Table. In addition, it has a feature called Send/Receive, which will help you to know whenever a new email message comes in your Outlook profile.
Like any other programs, Microsoft Outlook is also prone to corruption. Corruption of PST files can occur at anytime, making your Outlook application to run sluggish. If you face any such issues while working with Outlook, there is no need to worry. If a PST file is corrupted, you can use the inbuilt Inbox Repair tool of Outlook to fix these corrupted PST files. Sometimes, there will be cases where the inbuilt tool of Microsoft will not be capable of recovering the corrupted files. In this case, you can use the scanpst.exe tool for fixing the corrupted files. If that too doesn’t work well, then it is best to use a third party tool for fixing it.
As said before, corruption of PST files can occur at any time. There are a number of reasons that lead to PST corruption. Increased PST file size is the most common reason and if your PST files are big in size, it will take a lot of time to open and to send and receive them. In addition, incorrect opening and closing of Outlook can also result in corruption.
The below said are the common Outlook error messages that you can experience.
- Outlook.pst could not be found
- Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file
- Outlook.pst cannot be accessed - 0×80040116
- Outlook.pst has reached its maximum size
If these errors occur, you can use the Outlook inbox repair tool to fix it. You can access this tool from either C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\95 or C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\NT. Once it is located, follow the below given steps by the Outlook problems and help team to use it for repairing corrupted PST files.
- Click on the Start button, followed by clicking the option called Find/Search. This will depend upon the OS that you are using.
- Enter scanpst.exe in the corresponding search box.
- Launch the Inbox repair tool by double clicking the scanpst.exe file.
- Use the browse button for selecting the file that you want to repair. After selecting it, click the button called Start. This will start the repairing process of corrupted PST files.
The above said instructions given by the Outlook problems and help team will fix the corrupted PST files in Outlook 2007.
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