Is there a best utility to check and clean a PST than SCANPST.EXE?

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear friends:

Since a month I have a big problem with sync-sing Outlook with my WM5
PDA-phone. The sync process takes an infinity amount of time (several
hours without ending it) and normally crashes the PDA. I don't have
any problem sync-sing the same Outlook with old WindowsCE devices like
an HP-720.

Also, SCANPST.EXE says that the PST file is OK, and I can sync the
same WM5 PDA with another computer without any problem. I have
reinstalled ActiveSync 4.5 several times and all seems to be OK there.

So I assume that the problem is in the Outlook PST file. Since my PST
file, or Outlook installation, is very old (maybe four years old), is
there a best utility to check and clean a PST than SCANPST.EXE? Or, is
there an utility that can copy all the messages, appointments, tasks,
contacts, rules and filters, etc. from my actual PST file and create a
new clean one to replace it?

Any hint?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Brian Tillman]

So I assume that the problem is in the Outlook PST file. Since my PST
file, or Outlook installation, is very old (maybe four years old), is
there a best utility to check and clean a PST than SCANPST.EXE? Or, is
there an utility that can copy all the messages, appointments, tasks,
contacts, rules and filters, etc. from my actual PST file and create a
new clean one to replace it?

You can certainly buy PST repair tools that are more comprehensive than
scanpst. Google for "office recovery" or "PST repair".

It's fairly trivial, though possibly tedious, to create a new PST and
populate it with the data in the old PST. Click File>New>Outlook Data File
and create it. Make it your delivery location in Tools>E-mail Accounts>View
or change existing e-mail accounts>Next, and change the "Delivery new e-mail
to the following location" drop-down. Stop and restart Outlook. Then copy
the data in each of the old default folders to the corresponding new default
folder. When finished, close the old PST.

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear Brian, thanks a lot, but will this procedure be able to transfer
the Contacts, Appointments, Notes, and Email Filters and Rules too?

You can certainly buy PST repair tools that are more comprehensive than
scanpst. Google for "office recovery" or "PST repair".

It's fairly trivial, though possibly tedious, to create a new PST and
populate it with the data in the old PST. Click File>New>Outlook Data File
and create it. Make it your delivery location in Tools>E-mail Accounts>View
or change existing e-mail accounts>Next, and change the "Delivery new e-mail
to the following location" drop-down. Stop and restart Outlook. Then copy
the data in each of the old default folders to the corresponding new default
folder. When finished, close the old PST.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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After furious head scratching, Juan I. Cahis asked:

| Dear Brian, thanks a lot, but will this procedure be able to transfer
| the Contacts, Appointments, Notes, and Email Filters and Rules too?
|
|
||
||| So I assume that the problem is in the Outlook PST file. Since my
||| PST file, or Outlook installation, is very old (maybe four years
||| old), is there a best utility to check and clean a PST than
||| SCANPST.EXE? Or, is there an utility that can copy all the
||| messages, appointments, tasks, contacts, rules and filters, etc.
||| from my actual PST file and create a new clean one to replace it?
||
|| You can certainly buy PST repair tools that are more comprehensive
|| than scanpst. Google for "office recovery" or "PST repair".
||
|| It's fairly trivial, though possibly tedious, to create a new PST and
|| populate it with the data in the old PST. Click File>New>Outlook
|| Data File and create it. Make it your delivery location in
|| Tools>E-mail Accounts>View or change existing e-mail accounts>Next,
|| and change the "Delivery new e-mail to the following location"
|| drop-down. Stop and restart Outlook. Then copy the data in each of
|| the old default folders to the corresponding new default folder.
|| When finished, close the old PST.
| Thanks
| Juan I. Cahis
| Santiago de Chile (South America)
| Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Dear Brian, thanks a lot, but will this procedure be able to transfer
the Contacts, Appointments, Notes, and Email Filters and Rules too?

Not rules. For the rules, use the export/import feature of the Rules and
Alerts wizard.