subject: Solutions To Remove The 0x80040116 Error [print this page] Are you encountering an error message while access your MS Outlook components? Is your PST (Personal Storage) file unusable with MS Outlook? These situations primarily occur when your PST is corrupt or damaged. Few main causes liable for the file damage are application malfunction, operating system corruption, header damage, and malicious software like virus. Data from a file can not be accessed if the file is corrupted. For such situations, you will need to restore the file from an updated backup.
To begin with troubleshooting this problem, you should first recreate your mail profile. Once the new profile starts working perfectly and you can access the settings of a new PST (Outlook creates a new .PST with each mail profile you create) and attach the existing PST file. If it works properly, corruption was related to profile and not with the PST file, which now has been resolved. But if Outlook behaves in the same manner as before, your original PST file is corrupted that you need to Recover PST.
Another way is simply un-installing your whole Outlook program, and reinstalling it - and thence doing away with the corruption in the .PST index file. This is, however, not a route you will want to take, when you get to learn that it means losing all your data (saved contacts, archived emails, and calendar details) and similar things that you have in your Outlook.
There is a better way: you can make use of one of the .PST repair tools that are nowadays available (and some of which are easily downloadable from the Internet) - which are able to detect the corruption in your .PST index file, and fix it, so that you can get your Outlook working properly again, without having to risk losing any important data in the repair process.
