subject: How to Resolve Unknown Errors in Microsoft Outlook? [print this page] How to Resolve Unknown Errors in Microsoft Outlook?
Is your Outlook PST file unusable and inaccessible? Are you getting Stop errors while opening the PST file? Is your Microsoft Outlook account not working properly? Well, such behavior are usually caused by a damaged or corrupt Outlook PST file. Corruption renders the PST file unreadable by Microsoft Outlook application. At the occurrence of this situation, PST file becomes totally inaccessible, causing critical data loss circumstances. At this stage, an absolute backup of Outlook data file proves great help to restore data. But, if it is not available, Outlook PST repair is the only way to work around this issue.
For instance, you may come across any of the below error messages when you attempt to read mails from MS Outlook Inbox folder or click Send/Receive button, if you are using MS Outlook 2007, 2003, or 2002 with Windows Vista or Windows XP:
An unknown error has occurred. 0X80040119
An unknown error has occurred. 0X80040600
If you attempt to remove any mail from Outlook account, further error message occurs that states:
"Messaging interface has caused an unknown error"
After this behavior, Outlook account becomes completely unusable. To extract data from such PST files, you must identify the cause of this problem and repair PST files by solving it.
Root of the problem:
The problem occurs due to damage to the Outlook data file. Corruption can be caused by numerous reasons, including virus infection, oversized PST file, application malfunction, and improper system shutdown.
Solution
You can sort out this behavior using Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) for analyzing and repairing the Outlook data file. PST (Personal Storage Table) is the main data file of Microsoft Outlook, which stores all your emails, notes, contacts, tasks, journal, attachments, calendar items, and other significant data.
The location of Scanpst.exe tool and steps that you need to follow for using this tool may vary, depending upon the version of your operating system. You should bear in mind that Inbox Repair Tool can fix the corruption caused only by the internal reasons and it cannot repair PST file larger than 2 GB.
If the above methods do not work, PST repair software comes for your rescue. Outlook repair tools use high-end scanning algorithms and interactive user interface to ensure perfect and easy recovery.
