Microsoft Outlook PST file i.e. commonly known as Portable Storage Table is made to archives Outlook email data locally. MS Outlook is highly used email client and its popularity is due to simplicity. Users can use Outlook PST file in multiple norms:
1. Store Exchange Mailbox Data in local system
2. Make EDB file data accessible locally by simple conversion to PST file
3. Stores emails with attachments, colanders with business schedules, contacts with multiple email ID and tasks of all kind
4. Such capabilities make MS Outlook and PST file to be the most affordable and efficient system utilities.
What make to Split and Repair Outlook PST File?
Users utilize Outlook to keep track of Exchange mailbox data and to be synchronized with it. But what next if a system utility is used abnormally that it might cross its limitation. Very common example is downloading thousands of mails from Exchange to Outlook of huge size may cause Outlook to exhaust its limits and subsequently of PST file. Archiving dumps of data in PST file may cause PST files oversized that in future becomes a reason for Outlook to respond slowly. This makes a user to execute PST repair process. The Split and repair task is not an easy job for user.
Once PST file gets oversized to become overloaded with bunch of data causes PST file corruption. At this point of time when PST file is outgrown and is also damaged, corrupted and inaccessible, users losses hopes to access it back. Without losing the patience user must look for an alternative to get back the data. The only way left is to repair and split PST file accordingly. As only simple PST file recovery wont help the situation.
Solutions Serving the Need of Users
Talking about this simple situation when users get stuck with two problems altogether of outsized PST file and also corrupted PST file. As we all know ScanPST.exe a product of Microsoft capably recover PST file but the condition is your PST should have minor damages. But users get trapped when PST file is heavily corrupted and also large sized. User has to opt for any 3rd party tool or service that can split PST file i.e. exceeding its file size and then repair it. But Outlook PST split and repair is a dual task i.e. quiet not possible all alone if its done manually. As Outlook doesnt provide any option to split PST file so that makes its compulsory to look for a good responsive solution that can repair Outlook PST and split. These are very general situations that when any PST file is exceeding 25 GB and going up to 100 GB will cause Outlook less responsive and make PST go corrupt.