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Can someone please tell me where I find the in box repir tool. I have been trying to set up Outlook 98 to share a calander and address book with another computer on our win 98 peer to peer network. however, I get the erroe message that there is a problem with the outlook.pst file on the other drive, that I should quit all mail applications and repair the fault with the Inbox repair Tool. BUT WHAT% IS THE INBOX REPAIR TOOL? I can find no reference to it in the menus, help files or sny of the manuals I have. I have tried removing outlook, outlook express and all other outlook related applications, switching off, rebooting and then reinstalling, but I cannot sort this problem out! Thanks in advance.
Microsoft strikes again. One would think they'd put somewhere in their help files that the Inbox Repair Tool is actually SCANPST.exe
There is a copy in c:\program files\windows messaging folder. Run it on outlook.pst and it will probably repair it.
Good luck.
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Office also has a more up to date version of scanpst.exe in c:\program files\Microsoft Office\office.
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Does anyone know some Inbox Repair Tool that can support PST files greather than 2 GB ?
Microsoft says that Outlook Inbox repair tool only support PST files that not exceed 2 Gb but my PST file y 2.1 GB now and I can't open it with Outlook.
thanks a lot.
Monterrey, N.L. MEXICO
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I too have the same problem as EdgarG. My PST file is 2.06GB and the Inbox Repair Tool seemed to going through its repairing process only to terminate with an error message.
Review of repair log file started with "Beginning NDB recovery" followed by series of "**Attempting to open..." and "**Attempting to validate..." followed by 20KB worth of list of "!!... bad signature..." and "...missing required column..." and the log file ends with "Fatal Error: 80040900" message.
Does anyone have any solution as to repair PST file that is bigger than 2.0GB?
Thanks a million in advance,
drBang
SPAWARSYSCEN/J345DB/Norfolk, Virginia
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I am now happy to say that I have successfully restored all (2.115GB) but 21 bytes.
Solution? Microsoft probably won't like what I did and probably won't recommend anyone doing it the same way as I did, but I've used brute force method to reduce the size as well as I made sure the PST file was corrupted (i.e. manually corrupted the file by chaning the actual bytes) and thus forced the scanpst.exe to do real repair.
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I had a user who had a corrupted PST file and I ran SCANPST for them and it appears that it did not properly address many of the folders/messages they had.
Has anyone had this problem? Is there a newer version of SCANPST somewhere? I used the one that was installed with Office 97.
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I ran SCANPST on a corrupted PST. It stated that it had repaired the PST. When I attempted to open the PST within Outlook, it stated that there are no items to show in this view.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there some other utility that can be used to repair a PST?
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In response to a posting by drBang: how do you force the .pst file through the utility? I have a Outlook 98 .pst file that is 2+ gigabyte and it will not open. The Inbox Repair Tool goes through 4 of 8 steps but quits then without fixing the file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Don Landis
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Does anyone know how I can use the .pst folder on two computers at the same time over a peer to peer network. At present I can only open the folder on one computer at a time ???
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Do you people think you may want to DELETE or ARCHIVE some of these messages? Do you really ever look at 2 GIGABYTES worth of email? Jesus Christ, get some brains!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i know what you are saying. i used to do desktop rollouts in the uk and the biggest mail file a saw was 500 mb and that had 2000 odd messages EACH in the sent and deleted folders.
at present i onnly have a p200 laptop with a 2 gig hd so i am finding it funny that people are having difficulties with 2gig pst's! every so often i have to delete old messages to make some room on my 1 gig 'c' partition.
excess is an amazing thing!
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I have a crashed PST file, the outlook notices it, but the scanpst.exe says that the pst file is OK.
Anyone knows something about it?
Please...
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Se me olvido el password de una carpeta personal ( .PST) existe alguna forma de recuperar los mensajes de esa carpeta y acceder a la misma?
En espra de sus comentarios y respuestas.
Cordial saludo y gracias.
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Outlook cannot open my outlook.pst
scanpst.exe does not work (unable to repair...). Any idea, lil' softwares, etc...?
Please, save me!
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I've succeeded with recovering data from a 2GB+ .pst-file. I made two parts with a file-splitting-utility and put them through ScanPst (Instead of reducing the size and lost data)
Almost everything was recovered. The only problem is that mail that is present on both side of the splitting not can be recovered, but I guess you could live with that. In other case, split the file in different sizes and recover all parts.
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I used the Inbox Repair Tool on Word 97 and it said that there were errors so I clicked Fix and now I get this error message: C:\Program File\Microsoft Word\Office\WINWORD.exe is not a valid Win32 application -- what do I do? I can't get into Word now no matter what I've tried. HELP!!!
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does anyone know where can I get the file splitting utility ? I want to use this utility for MS outlook PST file spliting
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I heard from Microsoft that once the Inbox Repair Tool hits an unrepairable record it skips to the end of the file and you loose again. Does anyone know about this issue? Do you have a solution? I have lost all my Sept 2000 inbox information and I am pissed.
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Outlook cannot open my outlook.pst
scanpst.exe does not work (unable to repair...). Any idea, lil' softwares, etc...?
Please, save me!
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Anyone know how to reduce a 2+ Gig pst file once you exceed that Outlook limit? I can't even open it now.
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All of you who have 2 GB pst's are stupid. What moron saves that much email. What email could possible be that important. All of you who canot open your pst's. Goto a freeware sight and download a splitting file utiliy and slit your pst up and then run scanpst on each of the split files. Then delete or archive some the email, so that the size of youre pst is smaller. 2 GB pst's are a sign of shear laziness by all of you.
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Who knows how to repair or undelete the deleted messages in Microsoft Outlook personal folder.
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Who knows how to correct a corrupted outlook express email folder? I lost 90% of my emails in some folders - but they are there somewhere since the file sizes are right.
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