Advanced pst Repair Tool

Microsoft bundled utility for repairing PST file is Scanpst.exe. This tool is meant to repair broken PST files and pst files, which are inaccessible after any major/minor corruptions. However, this application has been a misnomer in terms of posing itself as an actual pst repair solution. Internally the repair process of the application tries to repair a file from scratch and rewrites the email and other entries. This process is extremely dangerous, as in the repair process, it may leave the PST un-repairable if the repair is not successful.

It has worked for individuals who have had minor PST corruptions. However, mostly it hasn’t been so much successful and thus has created a need to have more advanced PST repair solution.

PST Repair is one of the best and result oriented PST file repair software. It exceeds in capabilities as compared to scanpst. The internal mechanism of the software is opposite when compared to scanpst. Instead of rewriting the same PST file to repair, it creates a new PST file while reading the corrupt source pst file. This read-only method ensures that even the corrupt source file is secure of any writing process (However, it is always recommended that you backup your corrupt PST file first before attempting any repair process). The results are by far more superior then scanpst and this is why this software is so popular amongst Microsoft Outlook users worldwide.

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Inbox Repair Tool Fails To Repair corrupted PST File

Majority of corruptions encountered by Microsoft Outlook .pst files are due to various reasons such as, not closing the Microsoft Outlook properly, power failure, terminating Microsoft Outlook abruptly or Outlook application error which might have occurred while downloading emails.

Microsoft Outlook built-in Inbox repair tool is capable of handling minor corruptions. However, most of the pst file corruption cases cannot be fixed by this inbox repair tool.

DD PST Repair Tool, with its extremely advanced pst file scanner is designed and developed to repair and recover corrupt outlook .pst file. Highly intricate scan algorithms is capable enough to repair corrupt pst file in severe corruption caused as a result of above mentioned scenarios.

Its strongly recommended to try the trial version of DD PST Repair Tool when Microsoft Outlook in-built repair tool fails to rescue corrupted pst file. DD PST Repair Tool trial version is free to download and evaluate, which will give fair idea of repair possibilities.

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How to recover emails using DD pst Repair Tool

Disk Doctors PST Repair is an advanced Email Recovery Utility to repair corrupted or damaged PST files from Outlook PST file. Repair PST does not modify the existing PST file in Microsoft Outlook; it just reads the corrupted or damaged PST file and restores/retrieves the information to a new Repaired PST file.

Guide Overview

The purpose of this guide is to direct you how to repair and retrieve your lost or deleted emails.

To repair your damaged or corrupted .pst file follow the steps given below.

Step 1: Select Button to Recover Emails

Run Disk Doctors PST Repair Utility, an application main window opens; Click on “button” to select the .pst file.

Step 2: Select Source File to Repair

Once after clicking the button, it presents you a list of all .pst files in the system. Select a .pst file that needs to be repaired. If a .pst file that you are looking for is not listed in the application window, click “Browse” button to browse for a particular .pst file and click on “Next” button.

Step 3: Select Path to Locate Data

As soon as you click on “Next” button, a window displays to select a destination location to restore repaired .pst file.

Disk Doctors Repair offers you two options.

• Save data to local drive
• Burn data to CD/DVD

By default you can save data to local drive. Select the location to save .pst file. Select compress repaired file(s) to save repaired .pst file in compressed form.

Step 4: Select Scan Method

Immediately after locating the file, select scan method to repair .pst file.

Disk Doctors PST Repair provides you two scan methods:

• Normal Scan
• Smart Scan

Select Normal scan (default), which performs search for lost/deleted mails and click on OK button.

The application uses an advanced scanning technique to locate emails in the selected .pst file and restores them into a new .pst file in the selected destination location.

To access you emails as before you can import the new .pst file to Microsoft Outlook.

Now you can even preview the recovered mails by clicking on emails from the application main window. The software shows the preview of the selected .pst file in the application main window.

NOTE:

• The mail which you’re looking for, if not found after normal scan, please perform smart scan on the .pst file.
• Rigorously Smart scan searches the selected .pst file for lost/deleted emails.

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Outlook Basic Navigation Keyboard Shortcuts

Switch to Mail.
CTRL+1

Switch to Calendar.
CTRL+2

Switch to Contacts.
CTRL+3

Switch to Tasks.
CTRL+4

Switch to Notes.
CTRL+5

Switch to Folder List in Navigation Pane.
CTRL+6

Switch to Shortcuts.
CTRL+7

Switch to next message (with message open).
CTRL+PERIOD

Switch to previous message (with message open).
CTRL+COMMA

Move between the Navigation Pane, the main Outlook window, the Reading Pane, and the To-Do Bar.
F6 or CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

Go to a different folder.
CTRL+Y

Go to the Search box.
F3 or CTRL+E

In the Reading Pane, go to the previous message.
ALT+UP ARROW or CTRL+COMMA or ALT+PAGE UP

In the Reading Pane, page down through text.
SPACEBAR

In the Reading Pane, page up through text.
SHIFT+SPACEBAR

Expand or collapse a group (with a group selected) in the Navigation Pane.
SHIFT+PLUS SIGN or MINUS SIGN, respectively

Collapse or expand a group in the e-mail message list.
LEFT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW, respectively

Move to next field in Reading Pane.
SHIFT+TAB

Move to previous field in Reading Pane.
CTRL+TAB

Go back to previous view in main Outlook window.
ALT+B, ALT+LEFT ARROW, or ALT+BACKSPACE

Go forward to next view in main Outlook window.
ALT+RIGHT ARROW

Select the InfoBar and, if available, show the menu of commands.
CTRL+SHIFT+W

Repair corrupt pst file using pst repair tool

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Prioritize your emails

Office labs a group within Microsoft that tests ideas by constructing, designing prototypes and gathering usage data has been focused on ways to help you more efficiently manage your incoming e-mails and appointments in Outlook. Office Labs has also been exploring some new methods to help people manage the enormous amounts of information they receive on a daily basis.

To help ease this information overload, Microsoft Office Labs has released “Email Prioritizer” on www.officelabs.com. The prototype – inspired by Microsoft Research’s “Priorities” project – is an add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that was built by the Office Labs development team at there head research labs. “Email Prioritizer” provides a “do not disturb” button that for the short term pauses new email arrival from ten minutes up to four hours. Email Prioritizer will also assign priority ratings of 0 to 3 stars to incoming mail to help users focus their attention on the most important email messages.

Requirements: Microsoft Outlook 2007

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RSS Reader for Microsoft Outlook 2003

Built-in RSS reader of Microsoft Outlook 2007 allows you to subscribe to RSS Feeds and then read blogs or follow links for further information. Whenever you see a link to a feed, or an RSS icon such as the one at the top of this page, just click. Outlook 2007 automatically subscribes you to that RSS Feed.The users of Outlook 2003 must be looking for such option or an upgrade from Microsoft for Outlook 2003 having this feature. However, we do not see any thing of this type getting released by Microsoft. But there is a free utility which allows you to track and manage all of your RSS content within Outlook 2003.Now you can

Synchronize your subscription(s) with other readers.

Forward posts to colleagues and friends through outlook like email.
Read your subscription(s) offline, as it would download the subscription(s) like emails.

Post directly to your blog.

With NewsGator, you can get all your news and information delivered right to your Microsoft Outlook® folders. More Information: http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorInbox/Default.aspx

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Outlook pst file corruption when used over LAN or WAN

Generally In an enterprise where file server is used to store emails messages for users, having there data storage path redirected to these storage servers, either a standalone server or an array inside a NAS box is used to store personal storage files i.e. PST. The trend of using PST files over network either on a LAN or WAN is not the recommended way of accessing a PST file by Microsoft.

According to Microsoft their MS-Exchange team never had plans to design PST file, but to have a user maintain a copy of emails in his local machine they provided support in terms creating a PST file locally. A .pst file is a file access driven process to store messages, where Operating System sends special commands to the file system to read and write the data to disk. This methodology is not intended to work over network as then Outlook tries to send file access commands over network and this creates lot of overheads on the server and file system managing those files on hard drives. In case when the connection fails or configurationally any changes happen to the file read or write requests, the .pst file gets corrupted.

DD PST Repair can repair such .pst files with ease and valuable data can be rescued from those corrupted .pst files to new healthy .pst files created by PST Repair software.

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Outlook 97-2000 pst conversion - ANSI to Unicode

Outlook 2003 with its launch brought a new file format to store message with Unicode formatting, with Unicode formatting support it has no limitations for the number of emails or entries to store per folder or in terms of .pst file size by overriding previous 2 GB file size limit.

The old format is popularly known as “Outlook 97-2000 .pst file” and is commonly referred as ANSI .pst file, which has limit for size i.e. 2 GB.

In most of the cases when a .pst files gets corrupted, we perform series of operations by running tools bundled along with Outlook such as Inbox Repair tool or PST2GB, but as discussed in earlier posts that they are not helpful. Similarly converting an ANSI .pst file to Unicode format is not a solution and might not work. However, such attempts may further aggravate the corruption. Microsoft doesn’t provide any tool to perform such operation on corrupt .pst file or .pst file with 2GB file size limit. There are some tools available in market claim to work in such cases, but we have received many number .pst cases where people have tried this operation once and never have successful.

Finally, we would suggest users to consider tool such as DD PST Repair which works in READ – Only mode, and is always successful in recovering lost data from any type of .pst file corruption.

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Common Outlook pst problems

Common Outlook .pst problems

We would like to point out some of the unavoidable questions or issues that most of the Microsoft Outlook users put across to newsgroups of Microsoft or various support forums about Outlook personal storage files i.e. (.pst).

Standalone Outlook application which is not working under C/W (Corporate or Workgroup mode) mode stores all its data inside a .pst file. It is quite easy to locate a .pst file using Outlook, all you have to do is right-click the Outlook Today folder and choose Properties. In the properties dialog box, click the “Advanced” button to know the file name and disk storage path of your .pst file.

This helps you to take the backup of your .pst file, you just need to close Outlook and browse the path you just checked and then create a copy of your .pst file. In case if you have moved the file from its original path Outlook would not be able to access the .pst file. However, you can again redirect Outlook to the new path in the same fashion you checked the path. You can use the option “Mail” in Windows Control Panel as well.

Default Store path for Outlook in Windows 2000 / XP

%drive%:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Default Store path for Outlook in Windows Vista

%drive%:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

Most common Outlook problems

1. Corruption caused due to 2 GB .pst file size limit.
2. Corruption of .pst file when used over network.
3. Case of accidentally deleted messages, contacts and notes.
4. Corruption inside the .pst file header.
5. Corruption caused due to compacting of the .pst file.

In our coming posts we would be covering all the above mentioned problems in detail.

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Repair corrupt 2GB .pst files

In Outlook 2000 the .pst file size was limited to a 2 GB. If a .pst file goes beyond this size limit, .pst file becomes corrupt and retrieval of emails and data from this oversized .pst file becomes difficult. Inbox repair tool provided with Microsoft office suite is not sufficient in repairing oversized files. Running compact operation on an oversized file and running inbox repair tool may result in loss of important attributes.

To repair a .pst file corrupt due to 2gb size limit, use DD PST Repair an advanced Outlook Mail Recovery software, which can repair the .pst file and would create a healthy .pst file which can be imported back to Microsoft Outlook.

Outlook offers no integrated procedure to reduce a 2GB PST file. However, Microsoft provides a tool, PST2GB, which truncates the data between 30 to 50mb and the truncated data contains crucial data which is not recoverable. Hence we should avoid using such tools.

DD PST Repair doesn’t truncates the file, instead it creates a blank new .pst file and creates all those entries again and in this process all the junk entries and unwanted temporary data is left with the old .pst and user gets a new healthy .pst file. Before attempting anything we suggest that you should always take the backup of your corrupted .pst file and than run the demo version of DD PST Repair to confirm the chances of recovery. Demo Version of DD PST Repair is available on this link PST Repair Demo

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