Appropriate Reasons behind Outlook PST file Corruption

Outlook PST File Corruption Reasons

We are now living in the world where we have to do too many things in very short span of time. Our needs are so many even 24 hrs. are less for us to complete the task sometimes. In such situation if you face problems with Microsoft Outlook, where all your emails, calendar, notes etc. on MS Outlook get corrupt and you are unable to read any of them. Such a panic situation will give you worry if you don’t have the backup of that particular data. In case if we are aware in advance about the causes of data loss then we can take extra care while working on computer.  

Importance of PST File:

MS Outlook works as a personal information manager. Outlook stores user mailbox information in form of a file named as Outlook data file. These files are named as Personal Storage Table and saved with extension .pst. Every corresponding folder associated with mailbox folder like inbox folder has file name inbox.pst etc. Size of PST file depends on Outlook version used by users. Outlook 2013 users can store up to 50GB data in their PST file

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It is very specific when PST files have got damaged or corrupt which store the complete details of MS outlook.Let us read the causes of Outlook data loss. The causes of PST file corruption are as given below:

•    File oversize issues above 2 GB
•    File sharing over a networked drive
•    Unexpected shutdown
•    Disrupted compaction
•    File header corruption
•    Installation of Antiviruses
•    Installations of Add-Ins

Free Methods to save PST file from corruption

• Split Outlook PST files at regular interval
• Compact Outlook PST and reduce Out;look PST file  size
• Delete all unwanted emails from Outlook

These are the major causes of PST file corruption. If we take care of above points then we can save the PST file from corruption.

What to do if Outlook PST file crosses 2GB limit?

Outlook works as a Personal Information Manager for all users either they are business users or they are home users. In above lines I had already discussed about the significance of PST file in Outlook. In our daily work routine it becomes difficult to manage Outlook mailbox. Most of time we witness a lot of unwanted emails in our mailbox and these unwanted emails creates a lot of trouble for PST file. PST file size increases automatically as size of mailbox get increase.

It may be possible busy schedule don’t let user to differentiate their mailbox. This automatically increases the size of PST file and large size PST file are more prone to corruption.

Corrupt PST file directly leads to data loss. Microsoft has suggested s free solution to repair corrupt PST file. This free tool is named as Inbox Repair tool with exe scanpst.exe. Scanpst . exe is associated with user profile as user registered their Outlook account.

But scanpst.exe has few limitations that are following:

• Scanpst.exe does not repair PST file whose file size is more than 2GB.
• Scanpst.exe does not promise user to give 100% successful recovery of data.
• Scanpst.exe will repair only file in which corruption occur in header part of file. 
• Scanpst.exe is not able to repair heavy corruption

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There are many of software available online to recover damaged outlook files. The most important thing is to select for best software for PST File Recovery.