Inbox Repair not fixing

[Guest]

User on Outlook 98 had corrupt .pst folder. Inbox Repair tool would run and say everything is alright. Still could not open folder. Upgraded to Outlook 2k and still could not open folder. Ran Inbox Repair Tool and it said file is fine. The size of the .pst is 1GB. Any suggestions?

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

User on Outlook 98 had corrupt .pst folder. Inbox Repair tool would run
and say everything is alright. Still could not open folder. Upgraded to
Outlook 2k and still could not open folder. Ran Inbox Repair Tool and
it said file is fine. The size of the .pst is 1GB. Any suggestions?

Sometimes you need to run the Inbox repair tool several times to get it
to completely work. How do you know the file is corrupted? What if you
create a new Outlook profile and try to open the .PST file from there?

 

[Susan]

are you getting an error when trying to open the folder, or does it just
hang there? I have found on occasion that if someone could not open a pst
file on their workstation, I could open it on mine (1/2 gig of RAM on mine),
then I could break the pst file apart into a couple of smaller pst files and
then the user could access them...

User on Outlook 98 had corrupt .pst folder. Inbox Repair tool would run

and say everything is alright. Still could not open folder. Upgraded to
Outlook 2k and still could not open folder. Ran Inbox Repair Tool and it
said file is fine. The size of the .pst is 1GB. Any suggestions?