Importing PST Files for Outlook 2000

[Guest]

I have to computers running Outlook 2000. I always export my emails and
related folers to a PST file as a backup. I went to import the latest pst
file that was backed up and outlook tells me "Unable to display the folder.
Errors have been detected in the file "outlook.pst". Quit all mail-enable
application and then use Inbox Repair Tool".

I tried the Inbox Repair Tool and nothing happened. I even tried
uninstalling all of office and then reistalling and it automatically opened
Outlook with the same corrupted file. After a few attempts of trying to
recover my pst file, I gave up and had to create a new pst. i still have a
backed-up copy of the pst but everytime I try to import it, the same problem
occurs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Cadotte

 

[Gordon]

I have to computers running Outlook 2000. I always export my emails and
related folers to a PST file as a backup.

Why? Just make a copy of the pst file.


I went to import the latest pst

file that was backed up and outlook tells me "Unable to display the folder.
Errors have been detected in the file "outlook.pst". Quit all mail-enable
application and then use Inbox Repair Tool".

I tried the Inbox Repair Tool and nothing happened. I even tried
uninstalling all of office and then reistalling and it automatically opened
Outlook with the same corrupted file. After a few attempts of trying to
recover my pst file, I gave up and had to create a new pst. i still have a
backed-up copy of the pst but everytime I try to import it, the same problem
occurs.

As is posted most days, and many times in this group, do NOT use the
import/export function for pst files! just go to File-Open-Outlook Data
File.

 

[The Marker]

Just open it via file - open - outlook data file.

 

[Guest]

If you're not using Exchange you already have a complete PST file. You don't
have to export, just make a copy of the existing one.

If you need to run scanpst to repair errors, you may have to run it multiple
times.

For Outlook 2000 there is a size limit on the PST of 2 GB but it can easily
corrupt after 1.5 GB or so. You may want to verify the size of your problem
PST.
To open a PST simply click File > Open.

 

[Alan]

Hi,

You can try our product Advanced Outlook Repair to repair your PST
file. It is a powerful tool to recover messages, folders and other
objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook PST files.

It can also solve the oversize problems in PST files.There are two
alternative solutions:

1. Convert oversized PST file into Outlook 2003 format, which doesn't
has a 2GB limit. However, to use this solution, you must install
Outlook 2003 on your computer. The detailed steps are:

1.1 Start Advanced Outlook Repair.
1.2 Select the source oversized PST file in the "Select PST file to be
repaired" edit box, and set its format as "Auto Determined" or other
values if you know its format already.
1.3 Set the output fixed PST file name, and set its format to "Outlook
2003".
1.4 Click "Start Repair" button, Advanced Outlook Repair will repair
the source oversized PST file, recover all data in it, and save them
into the fixed PST file in Outlook 2003 format.
1.5 Open the fixed PST file with Outlook 2003.

Alternatively, if you don't have Outlook 2003 installed, you can:

2. Split the oversized PST file into smaller ones less than 2GB, as
follows:

2.1 Start Advanced Outlook Repair.
2.2 Go to "Options" tab, select "Split output PST file when it is
larger than xxx MB" option, and set the size limit to a value less
than 2GB, for example, 1000MB. Please note the unit is MB.
2.3 Go to "Repair" tab
2.4 Select the source oversized PST file.
2.5 Set the output fixed PST file name
2.6 Click the "Start Repair" button, Advanced Outlook Repair will
repair the source oversized PST file, recover the data and output them
into the fixed PST file. If the output PST file is larger than the
preset value, then a second output PST file will be generated, if the
second file is larger than the preset value, then a third output PST
file will be generated, and so on. For example, if you enable the
option "Split output PST file when it is larger than xxx MB" and
specify 1000MB as the size limit, then if the output pst file
myfile_fixed.pst is larger than 1000MB when some recovered items have
been saved into it, a split PST file called myfile_fixed_1.pst will be
created to accommodate the remaining recovered items, and if
myfile_fixed_1.pst reaches 1000MB again, a new split PST file called
myfile_fixed_2.pst will be created, and so on.
2.7 Thus each output PST file will never be larger than the preset
value so you can open them one by one in Outlook.


Please visit http://www.datanumen.com/aor/index.htm for detailed
information about Advanced Outlook Repair.

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe

Alan Chen
DataNumen, Inc. - World leader in data recovery technologies
Website: http://www.datanumen.com
Fax: +1-800-9917-FAX (US Toll-Free)

 

[vnmoris]

I have to computers running Outlook 2000. I always export my emails and
related folers to a PST file as a backup. I went to import the latest pst
file that was backed up and outlook tells me "Unable to display the folder.
Errors have been detected in the file "outlook.pst". Quit all mail-enable
application and then use Inbox Repair Tool".

I tried the Inbox Repair Tool and nothing happened. I even tried
uninstalling all of office and then reistalling and it automatically opened
Outlook with the same corrupted file. After a few attempts of trying to
recover my pst file, I gave up and had to create a new pst. i still have a
backed-up copy of the pst but everytime I try to import it, the same problem
occurs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Cadotte

I think it would be better to create a new Outlook profile and then try importing latest PST files. Hope it works
also visit: http://www.repairpst.info