Outlook is a very good application to enjoy faultless communication through emails. It handles many other tasks along with emails like Meeting Requests, Calendar Events, Appointments, Contacts, etc. However, sometimes your Outlook may encounter some problems due to logical corruption and start getting error messages like “Unknown error ox80040600” or “OL2000: Unable to Use Your Personal Folder File”, etc. Upon getting these types of errors you can conclude that it is due to .pst file corruption. PST file is a storage folder used by MS Outlook, which holds all the emails along with other data which user saves in their profile.
Like any other problem, there is a solution for .pst file corruption also; you can repair it using PST recovery software but it is good to know about the problem and reasons first to avoid it. Once this is understood you can easily decide on ways how to repair PST file.
Some scenarios which lead to .pst file corruption are explained below.
- Limitation of PST file size: The major reason for .pst file corruption is its file size. Continuous use of .pst file will gradually increase its size. In older versions of Outlook the .pst file size was fixed to 2GB later it is upgraded and changed to 20GB and 50GB in Outlook 2010. If the amount of data stored reaches or exceeds the limited size, the access of .pst file will be denied and Outlook fails to synchronize. This leads to .pst file corruption.
- Improper termination of Outlook: If you came across any power surge or system crash which will force Outlook terminate, which is not a proper way to quit the application. At that point of time, if your .pst file was in use or Outlook was performing any information related task then it results in entering some garbage values. Since the .pst file is in database format, it obviously leads corruption the file.
As I mentioned earlier the only solution is using some .pst repair tool, if you don’t have its backup. You can try using your scanpst.exe but for effective results it is good to opt for some third party tools, because scanpst.exe is not capable of handling severe corruptions.
But the third party tools are well engineered, which are able to scan and extract data from highly corrupted .pst files. They will never harm your original .pst file, instead of that they will create a new file with the previous data which you can import back to your Outlook. Remo Repair Outlook (PST) is one such application which has got an effective repair and recovery mechanism which gives better results in a few steps. This utility takes care of your data and gives you back as it was previously even after complete corruption with all the settings.
Once you are done with repair process, it is strongly advised to take a regular backup of your .pst file which never lets you think of any repair process in future. This plays a major role in case of .pst file corruption.
You can download the free to try version of Remo Repair Outlook (PST) to repair corrupt .pst file.