Resolving Microsoft Outlook inbox failures
Microsoft Outlook is extraordinarily prone to and susceptible to inbox damage. The reasons for this are numerous. To begin with many versions of Outlook are saddled with a 2 GB folder size limit. Exceed this limit and part if not all of the application functions shutdown. The Microsoft Outlook application operates through what is known as a PST file. The PST or personal storage file is a write to database that sorts, stores and retrieves all of the Microsoft Outlook data such as e-mail messages, calendar functions and scheduling. The PST file also stores customizations and settings. Damage occurs within the PST file during compression of messages, scanning of incoming emails and simple transfer of information.
We resolve this damage and repair PST problems in one of two ways. We can use the built in to Microsoft Outlook repair tool known as scan PST. This particular tool is somewhat ineffective. The other and better way to deal with corrupted PST repair is to use a third party tool expressly designed to extract from a damaged PST file all non application file data and install that information into a working PST.