Inbox Repair Tool

[Greg]

Recently I reported a problem with a PST file getting
overloaded but not being repaired with the 2GB Truncate
and SCANPST utilities. It was suggested by an MVP that I
further truncate the PST file to below 1.5 Gb. I
truncated the original file down to 1.4 Gb and still got
the error when running SCANPST (halfway through Phase 6 of
8, the scan would quit with the message "An error has
occurred which caused scan to be stopped. No changes have
been made to the scanned file. Fatal Error 80040819). So
then I truncated it down to below 1Gb -- same result. Is
there any way I can perform a forced reindexing on the
truncated PST file with something other than SCANPST,
since that utility doesn't seem to be doing the job?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

to be honest greg, i work with microsoft premiere support
quite often and i was told that a good rule of thumb is
to never let it get over 1GB. the file is much more
prone to corruption past that size and scanpst has a hard
time recovering the lost data.

what i'd recommend in your situation though is to add
another .pst next to your original, divide the email
amongst new smaller ones and run scanpst if you still
need to. if they're new .pst's though, u shouldn't need
to run that utility on them...

 

[Brian Tillman]

Recently I reported a problem with a PST file getting
overloaded but not being repaired with the 2GB Truncate
and SCANPST utilities.

Can you open the PST at all? If so, copy out of it as much as you can. If
I were in your shoes and I could make a copy of the PST (for safe keeping),
open the file, copy out what I could, and see if I could delete anything.
If I could, I'd delete everything I had copied in the prior step then
attempt to compact the pst. Finally, I'd follow the advice in
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

 

[Greg]

Sorry... forget to mention that. No, I'm not able to open
the PST file at all. I did make a backup copy of the
entire PST file itself as soon as the problem was reported
to me (one of our salesmen seemed to have been using
Outlook as his filing cabinet for a year's worth of
artwork that had been sent to him rather than downloading
it), but have been doing all my work on the original. I
will definitely try what's shown on the slipstick.com
website though, and I greatly appreciate your passing the
information along to me. Thanks!!!

-----Original Message-----

Recently I reported a problem with a PST file getting
overloaded but not being repaired with the 2GB Truncate
and SCANPST utilities.Can you open the PST at all? If so, copy out of it as
much as you can. If I were in your shoes and I could make
a copy of the PST (for safe keeping),open the file, copy
out what I could, and see if I could delete anything.
If I could, I'd delete everything I had copied in the
prior step then attempt to compact the pst. Finally, I'd
follow the advice in
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm

Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the
domain.

 

[moosecull]

Dear Greg, and all other users, if you are fighting with the same issue by which you are unable to fix the .pst file error with the help of default scanpst.exe or other crop PST tool then you can solve these issues very easily with the help of other pst repair tools which are available as third party pst tools. Such kind of tool doesn't throw scanpst error while running the software. But its quit easy to do so with the help of the tool suggested here. You can easily do so with the help of link provided here. The software suggested here can easily do so without failing and have more features than common inbox repair tool have.

Helpful link for outlook application problems : http://scanpsterror.com

 

[samithjoseph]

Thanx moose for your wonderful suggestion. I also found some useful resources on the following site while doing a little bit of research myself
http://www.scan-pst-exe.net