Inbox Repair Tool - Scanpst.exe

[Salim Soormally]

I am aware about the scanpst.exe utility for repairing an
inbox file ( pst ).

However, there are times that the utility cannot repair
all the index/problems in a file. This apply to file with
size ( at least 60 Mb or higher i came across 975 Mb ).

My question is that i would like to know if there's any
other third party utility or programs which can resolve
above problem ( irrespective of the size of the pst file )
and give FULL DETAIL audit trail for any correction made.

Thank you.
Salim

 

[Ken]

I regularly have users with 2GB pst files and scanpst
does not work. I am dealing with one right now. Is
there a utility I can use to split the file in half?
Maybe I can get scanpst to work on files of a more
reasonable size.

 

[Ken]

I found that the corruption we were experiencing occurred
when we attempted to compact the file. To resolve, I
created 3 PST files and copied folder/items from a
working copy of the 2GB PST file (from the nightly
backup) to the 3 other PST files. Then we deleted the
2GB file. I did this from Outlook 2002. A few times
Outlook wouldn't respond for a few minutes but eventually
came back with a message that the original PST was full.
Once closing and restarting Outlook, I could continue
until everything was copied.