Looking for a utility to repair pst file

[news.microsoft.com]

Anyone out there come across a utility to repair a pst file yet? Mine was
simply copied while Outlook was open.

Scanpst wont repair it (nor will ontrack's software or pst19upg.exe unless
anyone knows how to run this utility properly)

This must be a VERY common problem with a known set of symptoms and one
which must need repairing in exactly the same way quite often?

I am using the version from Office XP on Windows XP but can transfer it to a
Mac if it helps?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Anyone out there come across a utility to repair a pst file yet? Mine
was simply copied while Outlook was open.

Scanpst wont repair it (nor will ontrack's software or pst19upg.exe
unless anyone knows how to run this utility properly)

It might not be repairable, but a third party tool may help.
http://www.google.com/search?q=+repair++pst

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Unfortunately it gives 826,000 responses which you laboriously have to go
through to ascertain slowly that they wont do what should be this simple and
common job

Doesn't anyone know of a utliity which works for this problem please?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Using the links that Brian supplied is the same method most of us use to
find utilities. Get going.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| Unfortunately it gives 826,000 responses which you laboriously have
| to go through to ascertain slowly that they wont do what should be
| this simple and common job
|
| Doesn't anyone know of a utliity which works for this problem please?
|
|| http://www.google.com/search?q=+repair++pst

 

[news.microsoft.com]

I did and when I use reasonable exclusions the results are 68 of which only
two pages show with no reference to any software which can cure this common
problem. That was why I asked the question about whether any expert in this
particular software knows of any cure for this problem which is the point of
a group such as this: I know and knew at all times that I can do a search on
google and as I mentioned did one before asking the question.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Brian Tillman]

I did and when I use reasonable exclusions the results are 68 of
which only two pages show with no reference to any software which can
cure this common problem.

You seem to think that one fix would work in all cases. The problem is that
any number of things can be wrong with a PST that was copied while it was
still open. Fixing it, in many cases, is flat-out impossible, depending on
what data had still to be written at the time of the copy. It may be a
common _class_ of problems, but it's not always the _same_ problem.

 

[news.microsoft.com]

No, you are right, I Hadnt realised that: Do you therefore know if there is
any documentation on the Microsoft site as to available switches with
scanpst which might be of any use? I cant beleive that any fix program
should take a 400 MB file and return a repaired 400 mb file which is
completely empty: It must be doing something wrong

 

[Brian Tillman]

No, you are right, I Hadnt realised that: Do you therefore know if
there is any documentation on the Microsoft site as to available
switches with scanpst which might be of any use? I cant beleive that
any fix program should take a 400 MB file and return a repaired 400
mb file which is completely empty: It must be doing something wrong

As far as I can tell, SCANPST supports no command line switches. I just
tried the usual approaches to discovering what they might be (i.e.
SCANPST.EXE /?, SCANPST.EXE -h, and SCANPST.EXE x) and it appears it ignores
anything on the command line.

 

[news.microsoft.com]

One of the links you suggested said that there was some way of recovering a
corrupted pst file using scanpst by running scandisk on it before scanpst:

I didn't know you could run scandisk on a file and obviously it has run lots
of times on the drive containing the file (as has NDD) and returned no
results. Do you know anything about how to repair a file using scandisk?

 

[Brian Tillman]

One of the links you suggested said that there was some way of
recovering a corrupted pst file using scanpst by running scandisk on
it before scanpst:

I didn't know you could run scandisk on a file and obviously it has
run lots of times on the drive containing the file (as has NDD) and
returned no results. Do you know anything about how to repair a file
using scandisk?

I don't think the link suggests that you can run scandisk on a file. I
believe it means to say is that you should run scandisk on the entire drive
before running scanpst on the file.

 

[Guest]

An outlookfix program is being beta tested right now. Go to:
http://www.cimaware.com/main/products/outlookfix-free.php
for a free recovery of your damaged PST file.

 

[Guest]

If you're using Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook Express which is
part of Internet Explorer), use scanPST.exe which you already have. Just do a
file search for it, double-click on it, and follow the prompts to point it to
your .pst file.