subject: How to deal with 0x80040116 error notes in MS-Outlook? [print this page] How to deal with 0x80040116 error notes in MS-Outlook?
Microsoft Outlook is an efficient personal and commercial information management application and is widely in use. Access data storage often exceeds the limit of the PST files and in several cases it damages and corrupts the files with continuous annoying and unknown 0x80040116 error notes.
Outlook users come across hordes of issues encountering while accessing emails, contacts, calendar or notes, hanging up in the midway and unable to access the files thereby. These errors often trouble users and do not let them use any mails or other personal folders. Most frequent and fatal error that generally bumps into is the error code 0x80040116 added with short message alerts like-
"Outlook.pst can not be accessed- 0x80040116 "
"Sending and receiving reported error (0x80040116): Unknown error 0x80040116"
The Outlook error notebasically notifies the user that your PST files are no safer and need to be repaired as soon as possible.
0x80040116 error occurrences does not depend upon any specific version of operating system or Outlook and is mostly encountered by almost all the users who are having the .pst or .ost file corruption issues.Users need to find out the cause and the way out to repair as well as recover the files. The error might be the outcome of oversized PST files or unexpected system shutdown or often malware infection in the files due to sharing them over the network. Under the circumstances the possibility of losing several valuable data maximizes and it requires some concrete step to overcome the situation.
In order to properly deal with this unknown 0x80040116 error Microsoft itself has provided an inbuilt inbox repair utility designed to mend and recover the lost, damaged and corrupted PST files. The inbox repair tool scans the selected PST files in which error was found and asks the user to fix and recover them.
