subject: Resolving Outlook Pst File Corruption [print this page] Your Outlook PST file (Personal Storage Table) usually becomes inaccessible as a result of virus infection or, many other serious corruption issues and which in the end affect the data integrity of your workstation. Despite these threats or dangers to your PST file, there are prolific ways with which you get a chance to open the damaged or inaccessible PST files with ease.
Corruption in PST file restricts opening of emails and other email items for interaction. Access to Outlook stuff just completely halts. Numerous error messages appear once PST gets corrupt. You usually get the following error messages once the PST file has gone corrupt:
Errors have been detected in file 'file_path'
Unable to expand the folder
The file could not be repaired therefore cannot be reopened
Whenever there is corruption in MS Outlook PST file, you must first try repairing it with Inbox Repair tool. Inbox Repair also known as Scanpst.exe is an inbuilt utility that comes with MS Outlook. Its function is to diagnose the corrupt PST file and fix up the contaminated errors.
One can just hope to be all fine with Inbox Repair tool, as this tool mostly fails during greater degree of corruptions in PST file. But with other option of PST viewer, our task gets accomplished easily. PST files stores local copies of messages, calendars, events, contacts, tasks, journals, notes etc. within MS Outlook or MS Exchange Server. Inaccessibility of these files results in loss of all emails and other email items.
As measure of precaution, on account of corruption in PST file, firstly make sure that you dont open your mailbox with other programs; otherwise you may completely destroy it. Loss of Outlook PST emails takes place due to accidental or intentional deletion, damage of emails in transit or loss due to exchange server corruptions; file size approached to 2GB, headers corruption or virus attacks.
Corruption issue now gets easily resolved with PST viewer tool, which is a wonder tool that works when Inbox Repair tool fails to recover data out of corrupt PST file. PST viewer repair PST file created with any version of MS Outlook.
