Personal Storage Table (PST) is a container for Microsoft Outlook which stores emails, Contacts, Calendars, Notes, Drafts, Tasks, to do list, shared items, Journals, Alarms and many more useful Outlook elements. This storage table has a specific storage limit of file size with depends on the version of Outlook.
Whenever a PST file gets oversized, the Outlook takes a lot of time to respond and open files from it. The problem becomes even worse when you try to access emails or contacts and you are responded with following error messages:
- “xxxx.pst cannot be accessed – 0×80040116.”
- Reported Error 0x00040820
- “The file could not be added to the folder. The action could not be completed.”
- “The file xxxx.pst has reached its maximum size. To reduce the amount of data in this file, select some items that you no longer need, then permanently (shift + del) delete them.”
- Error in Background Synchronization
- Errors have been detected in Outlook.PST file. Quit all mail-enabled applications and run Inbox Repair Tool
Overcoming the Problem by using inbuilt repair tool
Microsoft provides a built-in Inbox Repair Tool as “Scanpst.exe” to deal with various corruption problems of PST file including corruption due to PST file crossing its fixed size limit. It is stored in MS office folder of your system drive. You can begin the repair process by using the following steps:
- Open “scanpst.exe” application
- Click on “browse” button to choose the oversized PST file
- Hit the “Start” button to test the selected files for errors
- You’ll find option like “Make backup of scanned file before repairing”
- Select the destination location to save the backup file
- At last initialize the repair process by pressing “Repair” button
However the inbox repair tool doesn’t repair PST file of size more than 2GB, so in order to fix oversized PST file, you need to opt for a good repair utility like Yodot Outlook PST Repair
About the software
Yodot Outlook PST Repair is an advanced and a reliable third party application to repair oversized Outlook PST files created on all Outlook versions Outlook 2000, 2003, 2007 and MS Outlook 2010. The tool restores all Outlook elements like contacts, calendars, tasks, journals, email messages and many more elements during the repair process. The application also offers a very good graphical user-friendly interface through which even an amateur computer user can perform the repair process. More to this, you can view the contents of PST file after the repair process.
Working of the software:
Note: Terminate MS Outlook before the repair process
- Download Yodot Outlook PST Repair software from the website and install the software to your desktop / laptop
- Run the application and stick to the main screen procedures
- Three options will be displayed on the main screen “Open PST file”, “Find PST File” and “Outlook Profile”
- Click on “Open PST File” option to browse and open your oversized PST file
- Press on “Find PST File” button to search and locate your PST file
- Or select “Outlook Profile” option to select specific Outlook profile, if you have multiple Outlook profile
- Choose the appropriate scanning technique
- Browse for the destination location and click on “Repair” button
- After finishing the repair process, the tool shows all the deleted mails and other Outlook elements
Things to Remember
- Never terminate MS Outlook abnormally
- Make a backup of the PST file before the repair process
- Use a good antiviral program to remove viruses from the system
- Don’t share your PST file on different computer networks
