Nowadays, email has become most important communication method for both personal use and business use. Microsoft Outlook is most commonly used for sending, receiving and storing emails. If you want to send or receive emails through Outlook then you need to have email account. You can have more than one email profile in Outlook that contains email accounts, settings and data files. Along with emails, Outlook also stores Calendar items, Task, Notes, and Journals. All these items are stored in file called PST (Personal Storage Table) file which is located at your computer not on exchange server. Outlook 2000, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 are major versions of Microsoft Outlook. The maximum size of PST file depends upon the versions of Outlook. Outlook 97 to Outlook 2002 has PST file size limit of 2GB, Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 has PST file size limit of 20GB and Outlook 2010 has PST file size limit of 50GB. At times PST file may get corrupted if it exceeds size limit corresponding to their Outlook versions. Now, the question may arise like how to repair PST file, which is corrupted? The answer is simple, you can fix corrupted PST file using some relevant recovery tool.
In few cases, exiting Outlook abruptly may corrupt PST file resulting loss of important emails and other entities. Because, Outlook may be accessing PST file for some purpose So, if you exit Outlook at that instance then there are chances of PST file corruption. Generally, in offices many users share single PST file over network. While sharing PST file, the users may modify or use the same PST file at a same time, which may also results in corruption of PST file. In few cases, storing PST file on a server may also result in PST file corruption. You may encounter problems while accessing PST file, which is stored on server network environment is not able to allow access large PST file. Therefore, to avoid PST file corruption don’t store PST file on server.
If PST file exceeds its size limit then Outlook may not function properly. Therefore, archive and organize the emails periodically to improve the Outlook performance. Backup your PST files on weekly basis to avoid PST file. If you don’t have backup of your PST file then use an efficient software to repair and recover the data from the Outlook.
Remo Repair Outlook (PST) helps you to repair oversized PST files from different versions of Outlook like Outlook 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010. Along with PST files, this software also supports OST (Offline Storage Table) files. This software can also recover lost Contacts, Calendars, Task and other entities from Outlook. This software restores data from corrupted PST files that are damaged during compression. This software also repairs corrupted PST files which cannot be repaired by scanpst.exe. If you don’t know the location of your PST file then, this software helps you locate the PST file and repair it. You can download the trial version of Remo Repair Outlook (PST).