Help, pls, with corrupt .pst file

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Uncle Vinnie

Hi.. using Outlook 2000 and XP Home.

My archive file is now corrupt. I have tried using Microsoft's utility to
fix it, no luck.

Are there any programs/ utilities I could try??? Thank you!!
 
ScanPST is about all there is. Have you also checked your hard drive to make
sure it's not corrupt/etc?
 
Hi, Vince...

Ran defrag, chkdsk, and scanpst (thanks, forgot the name when I posted!).
No luck.

I am not sure how far ScanPST runs since I walk away, only to find it unable
to repair, file unchanged....

Not the end of the world, really, but 'just in case' I need to go back to an
old email...

Nothing else I guess.. Oh well! (What back-up file?!!)
 
How big is the archive .pst file? If over about 1.8 gigs, it may have
passed the limit of usability and needs to be pared down.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:

| Hi, Vince...
|
| Ran defrag, chkdsk, and scanpst (thanks, forgot the name when I
| posted!). No luck.
|
| I am not sure how far ScanPST runs since I walk away, only to find it
| unable to repair, file unchanged....
|
| Not the end of the world, really, but 'just in case' I need to go
| back to an old email...
|
| Nothing else I guess.. Oh well! (What back-up file?!!)
|
| || ScanPST is about all there is. Have you also checked your hard drive
|| to make sure it's not corrupt/etc?
||
|| ||| Hi.. using Outlook 2000 and XP Home.
|||
||| My archive file is now corrupt. I have tried using Microsoft's
||| utility to fix it, no luck.
|||
||| Are there any programs/ utilities I could try??? Thank you!!
 
Oh, big time yes on that one. See
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm for assistance.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:

| 2,062,784? Too big?
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || How big is the archive .pst file? If over about 1.8 gigs, it may
|| have passed the limit of usability and needs to be pared down.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:
||
||| Hi, Vince...
|||
||| Ran defrag, chkdsk, and scanpst (thanks, forgot the name when I
||| posted!). No luck.
|||
||| I am not sure how far ScanPST runs since I walk away, only to find
||| it unable to repair, file unchanged....
|||
||| Not the end of the world, really, but 'just in case' I need to go
||| back to an old email...
|||
||| Nothing else I guess.. Oh well! (What back-up file?!!)
|||
||| message |||| ScanPST is about all there is. Have you also checked your hard
|||| drive to make sure it's not corrupt/etc?
||||
|||| ||||| Hi.. using Outlook 2000 and XP Home.
|||||
||||| My archive file is now corrupt. I have tried using Microsoft's
||||| utility to fix it, no luck.
|||||
||||| Are there any programs/ utilities I could try??? Thank you!!
 
Thanks Millie...

As soooooooon as I digested your previous email, I googled 'split pst'. and
voila! Found MS's utility, trimmed the suggested '25'.. then scanpst'd the
smaller file- worked! I didn't even wait for your reply to the size of my
file - I had a feeling you were onto something!
All is now fixed and openable!

Now I just need to create a new pst file for future, and keep 'em down under
2 gig!

Thanks!

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
 
Better to keep them under 1.6 gigs as that is where the problems can start.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:

| Thanks Millie...
|
| As soooooooon as I digested your previous email, I googled 'split
| pst'. and voila! Found MS's utility, trimmed the suggested '25'..
| then scanpst'd the smaller file- worked! I didn't even wait for your
| reply to the size of my file - I had a feeling you were onto
| something!
| All is now fixed and openable!
|
| Now I just need to create a new pst file for future, and keep 'em
| down under 2 gig!
|
| Thanks!
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Oh, big time yes on that one. See
|| http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm for assistance.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:
||
||| 2,062,784? Too big?
|||
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| |||| How big is the archive .pst file? If over about 1.8 gigs, it may
|||| have passed the limit of usability and needs to be pared down.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:
||||
||||| Hi, Vince...
|||||
||||| Ran defrag, chkdsk, and scanpst (thanks, forgot the name when I
||||| posted!). No luck.
|||||
||||| I am not sure how far ScanPST runs since I walk away, only to find
||||| it unable to repair, file unchanged....
|||||
||||| Not the end of the world, really, but 'just in case' I need to go
||||| back to an old email...
|||||
||||| Nothing else I guess.. Oh well! (What back-up file?!!)
|||||
||||| message |||||| ScanPST is about all there is. Have you also checked your hard
|||||| drive to make sure it's not corrupt/etc?
||||||
|||||| ||||||| Hi.. using Outlook 2000 and XP Home.
|||||||
||||||| My archive file is now corrupt. I have tried using Microsoft's
||||||| utility to fix it, no luck.
|||||||
||||||| Are there any programs/ utilities I could try??? Thank you!!
 
Ok, will do!
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Better to keep them under 1.6 gigs as that is where the problems can
start.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:

| Thanks Millie...
|
| As soooooooon as I digested your previous email, I googled 'split
| pst'. and voila! Found MS's utility, trimmed the suggested '25'..
| then scanpst'd the smaller file- worked! I didn't even wait for your
| reply to the size of my file - I had a feeling you were onto
| something!
| All is now fixed and openable!
|
| Now I just need to create a new pst file for future, and keep 'em
| down under 2 gig!
|
| Thanks!
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Oh, big time yes on that one. See
|| http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm for assistance.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:
||
||| 2,062,784? Too big?
|||
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| |||| How big is the archive .pst file? If over about 1.8 gigs, it may
|||| have passed the limit of usability and needs to be pared down.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Uncle Vinnie asked:
||||
||||| Hi, Vince...
|||||
||||| Ran defrag, chkdsk, and scanpst (thanks, forgot the name when I
||||| posted!). No luck.
|||||
||||| I am not sure how far ScanPST runs since I walk away, only to find
||||| it unable to repair, file unchanged....
|||||
||||| Not the end of the world, really, but 'just in case' I need to go
||||| back to an old email...
|||||
||||| Nothing else I guess.. Oh well! (What back-up file?!!)
|||||
||||| message |||||| ScanPST is about all there is. Have you also checked your hard
|||||| drive to make sure it's not corrupt/etc?
||||||
|||||| ||||||| Hi.. using Outlook 2000 and XP Home.
|||||||
||||||| My archive file is now corrupt. I have tried using Microsoft's
||||||| utility to fix it, no luck.
|||||||
||||||| Are there any programs/ utilities I could try??? Thank you!!
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This is neat.. thank you!
Christian Goeller said:
Uncle Vinnie, you wrote on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:30:40 -0400:
Ok, will do!
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I think attachments will enlarge your pst-file. You could use a tool
like [1] which extracts all attachments from your mails to windows's
file system. So you have always a small pst-file but access to your
attachments anyway.

[1] http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/

--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller
Some misspellings, grammatical or linguistical mistakes found?
All corrections would be appreciated!
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