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Outlook PST Repair Recommendations?

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Renegade:
Yeah... a PST is hosed, so if anyone can recommend a decent PST recovery/repair utility, it would be appreciated. (I'll fart around with restoring a backup later -- I'd rather repair it if possible.)

<speaking to self>Sigh... One day Outlook will work right... Just keep telling yourself that... One day...</speaking to self>

lanux128:
what version of Outlook? you can google for scanpst.exe, normally it does the trick..

lanux128:
these two pages might be of help..

• http://www.petri.co.il/how-to-use-microsoft-outlook-inbox-repair-tool.htm
• http://www.projex.com/blog/outlook-pst-file-errors-fixed-download-scanpstexe

timns:
You should have ScanPST already installed - I found a copy in my Office12 folder (= Outlook 2007)

If you don't got that, and it's a version you could use, please let me know and I'll send it over.

But I'm glad you started this thread. I ran a scan out of interest and sure enough some repairs were required, which seems to have helped with Outlook's cpu usage here. She creeps.

Renegade:
I'd already run scanpst.exe several times to no avail. I've rebooted, and will try again...

And... dog poop.

The file "gets repaired", but I can't set it as the default -- Outlook crashes when opened then.

So, sigh...

I'll fart around some more and see if I can manage to get things back to sanity.

Regarding Outlook 2007, I found that it runs MUCH better than 2003, but 2010 is still better than 2007.

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