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Repair Outlook PST File Outlook with It’s Different Approachable Solution

Author: Christ Harold
by Christ Harold
Posted: Oct 17, 2017

Microsoft Outlook is an email client application tool or in other words we can say that it is an industry standard groupware tool. This application will help the users to intercommunicate with the emails also it includes the calendars, tasks, contacts etc. The main users for this are the people in the business sectors. Therefore, the data files in the Outlook is really precious one which is of fragile and if it breaks the users must find an appropriate way to repair Outlook PST file. Fortunately, there are lots of solution like manual and automated method. This article is discussed to repair.pst files Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003.

Normally people used to opt the free method. The Outlook provides an inbuilt repair option that is the Scanpst.exe for the PST file recovery.

Built-in cleaner: Scanpst to Repair.pst Files Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003

The built-in cleaner for the Outlook is the Scanpst.exe. It is not the tool that is used when the.pst file is highly corrupted but it is used for the minor corruptions. The soft-deleted data can be repaired. However, if some error occurs then to make it error-free the user must run the Scanpst.exe not once but should run multiple times. The step by step approaches of the inbuilt tool is discussed below to repair outlook data files (.pst and.ost).

Repair Outlook PST File Using Manual Approach

Step#1: Find the inbuilt tool to repair the.pst files ie. SCANPST.EXE.

      Note: If the first step doesn’t find the inbuilt tool please navigate the folder location accordingly with your Outlook versions.

  • Outlook 2016: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16

  • Outlook 2013: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15

  • Outlook 2010: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14

  • Outlook 2007: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12

Step#2:Launch SCANPST.EXE.

Step#3: In the text field of "Enter the name of the file you want to scan box", provide the name of the Outlook.pst file you want the tool to check.

Step#4: Select the Start to launch the scan process.

Step#5: The output of the scan gives error messages then choose the repair option.

Step#6: After completing the repair process run the Outlook with the profile of the data file that you just repaired.

Repair.pst Files Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003 Using Snap Shot Solution

Damage of the file is the most common issue in every application. For Outlook email client application the even if some issue persists then to repair the inbuilt repair tool is used ie. SCANPST.EXE which is a manual approach. This manual approach cannot repair the highly corrupted files. Even for a minor corruption the users must run the Scanpst.exe in multiple times. Therefore, to avoid this complexity the professional tool is used which will definitely remove the major issues. However, there are plenty of software’s available in the market and to opt the right tool it is difficult. To overcome this issue SysTools Outlook Recovery is used this really help the users to repair Outlook PST file. There are much more advantages of this tool that is it can split the large PST files also can able to restore PST files into Office 365.

Conclusion

The entire article is discussed with possible solutions to repair.pst files Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003. To perform this repair option the manual method is discussed using Scanpst.exe approach. However, the persistence of the drawbacks of the manual approaches the automated method is introduced. This really helps to repair Outlook PST file and also provide an option to restore it. Outlook PST file repair utility will recover the hard deleted data items and helps to clear the items with a quick and easy process.

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I am Software Engineer by Profession and Tech Blogger by passion. I love to write about technologies and solve user query on different forums.

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