The Inbox Repair tool or Scanpst.exe as it is commonly known is a built in tool designed to repair corruption in PST files. A PST file is a data file that stores all Outlook data like emails, contacts, calendars, etc. It is basically a file that contains a backup of all Outlook items. Any corruption or issue with the PST file can cause Outlook to not work properly.
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In order to repair these corruption issues, Microsoft provides a built in tool called ScanPST. This tool, along with repairing corrupt PST's also has the ability to recover deleted or lost emails from Outlook. Hence, many users use ScanPST to not only repair PST files, but also to recover emails.
ScanPST, although a very useful tool has certain limitations. That is, it can be used only to repair corrupt indexes and data structures. So, if the PST file involves corruption in other areas of the PST database, ScanPST may fail or produce error messages.
While that is one drawback with ScanPST, there are also others such as it cannot work with over-sized PST files or PST files that are severely corrupt. In these cases, ScanPST fails because it cannot successfully rebuild indexes to repair the PST file and hence cannot recover deleted emails.
To overcome this problem, make use of specialized PST repair tool called Remo Repair PST which repairs your PST files and also recovers deleted emails, contacts, calendars and other items in Outlook. It is an advanced Remo PST Repair Tool that can repair even the most severely corrupted PST files and recovers deleted emails skillfully with all its components like To, From, Subject and body along with attachments.
1. As a first step, download and install Remo Repair PST on your computer. After successful installation, launch the software to open the main screen.
2. In the main screen, you will find 3 options: 'Select PST file manually', 'Open default PST file' and 'Find All PST files'. Choose 'Select PST file manually' if you know the location of the PST file. If you do not know the location of the PST file, select Open Default PST file for the software to locate it
3. If you selected 'Select PST file manually' in the previous step, browse to the location of the PST file and select it
4. Next, select Normal Scan (since you recovering emails) and select a location to save the repaired PST file
5. Click Repair for the software to start recovery of deleted emails
6. Once the scan completes, your PST file with recovered emails are stored in the destination specified in Step 4.
Once Remo Repair PST has recovered all your Outlook emails, you can view them in Outlook and copy them to your default PST file using the guide below.
With the help of some simple tips provided here, you can easily avoid accidental deleting of emails and other items in Outlook.
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