Running pst19upg.exe

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I have an outlook file which I copied with Outlook open and it is corrupted
in the way they are always corrupted when people do this. I cant understand
why there isnt a utility available which can correct the exact same problem
everyone encounters who doesnt know to close Outlook before copying a pst
file?

EasyRecovery didnt do anything but create a 32KB completely empty PST file.
Scanpst also creates a completely empty pst file of about 400 megabytes
(unless there is some switch I should be using which I dont know of) with a
Recovered Items folder which is itself completely empty

So I downloaded pst19upg.exe from
http://www.securiteam.com/tools/6G00B1F0AS.html.
But running it in the recommended mode (pst19upg.exe -x archive2.pst) makes
a dos window open and then close immediately

Does anyone know how to run this program or if there is a more recent
version which will work with a PST file created with Outlook from Office XP?
The one I downloaded LOOKS as if it was created before XP came out. I have
read that MS change the format of PST files quite often and wonder if it was
created with an earlier version in mind?

 

[DL]

I dont believe Format of pst has changed untill OL2003, which uses unicode
format.
I assume you no longer have the origonal pst / or access to it
Pressumably you have run scanpst.exe on it, several times.?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have an outlook file which I copied with Outlook open and it is
corrupted in the way they are always corrupted when people do this.
I cant understand why there isnt a utility available which can
correct the exact same problem everyone encounters who doesnt know to
close Outlook before copying a pst file?

Because copying an open PST doesn't always lead to the exact same type of
corruption. It all depends on what data has been written to the PST and
what is still contained in buffers waiting to be written at the time the
copy occurs.

So I downloaded pst19upg.exe from
http://www.securiteam.com/tools/6G00B1F0AS.html.
But running it in the recommended mode (pst19upg.exe -x archive2.pst)
makes a dos window open and then close immediately

Open the command prompt window first, change directory to the folder where
the PST resides, then run the command from within the open command prompt
window. Don't use the Start>Run approach.

Does anyone know how to run this program or if there is a more recent
version which will work with a PST file created with Outlook from
Office XP?

The tool should work on all ANSI-format PSTs.

The one I downloaded LOOKS as if it was created before XP
came out. I have read that MS change the format of PST files quite
often and wonder if it was created with an earlier version in mind?

PSTs from Outlook 97-Outlook 2002 are all compatible.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I dont believe Format of pst has changed untill OL2003, which uses
unicode format.

Well, sort of. Originally folders were limited to 16K entries before MS
introduces big table support that allowed 64K entries per folder.