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Outlook 2003 - PST file corruption. Is it X1 ?

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Carol Haynes:
I had X1 desktop search running on my system without problems with Outlook XP. Recently I got the opportunity to upgrade to Outlook 2003 and ever since I have found my PST files are getting errors (I am paranoid about PST files and often run the Inbox repair tool to ensure all is well).

Since removing X1 the errors seem to have stopped but I don't want to point the finger too harshly in case there is something else in my system causing the problems (I have a lot of Outlook plugins which may have interacted badly with X1 for some reason).

The problem is there is no way of knowing how much data is lost when the file is fixed by ScanPST.EXE :(

Anyone else experience anything like this?

Darwin:
Outlook 2003 and X1 have been rock solid together since... whenever X1 went freeware (at least in the desktop version). That was no later than June (I think) so I've had 4 1/2 months of troublefree use. I'm running WinXP Pro Sp-2 and also have SpamBayes, SnagIt8, PDFConverter, Shutdown Add-in, and eAnnouncer running with Outlook.

Hope this helps.

Mike

PS I *did* have an issue with the previous couple of builds of X1 displaying a mosaic of Italian and English labels but this has been fixed in the latest build!

patteo:
I have been running X1 for quite a long time, (even before they teamed up with Yahoo) together with Outlook 2003.

Never had a problem with PST file corruption.

But nowadays, ever since I converted to Gmail, I rarely use Outlook 2003, except to enter a few names every now and then to update the contacts.

Initially, I was diligent in downloading my gmail into Outlook 2003 as a backup and I would then use X1 to index it.
But admitedly, I have been less than diligent using Outlook 2003 to backup my gmail over the last few months. But I do continue to use X1 (Enterprise version - now free) without experiencing problems.

Carol Haynes:
Thanks for the feedback - must be an unusual interaction on my system because since I uninstalled X1 I haven't had any corruptions at all whereas before everytime I closed Outlook I was finding my file was corrupt.

Out of curiosity have both of you actually run ScanPST.EXE on your Outlook database - or are you assuming no corruption because there are no messages? Outlook is really crap at informing users that there is a problem - it will happily open totally stuffed up PST files and continue to use them. I don't understand why there isn't some data integrity built in to Outlook rather than having to second guess the problem by running a separate and little known (also elusive) tool !

kimmchii:
similar error?
http://forums.x1.com/viewtopic.php?t=2522&view=next&sid=e1820fb42cef37c0673ed89750ddc599

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