How To Repair Your Outlook Files

I had an interesting problem today. I woke up this morning, after having stayed up till 4am answering several questions about my new server control, and I found that my Outlook was acting very strangely. I had a scare earlier this week, because I had to hook up my mom's virus-riddled hard drive to my server. Having already scanned for viruses several times and coming back with nothing, I decided that my Outlook files were getting corrupted.

I had done a repair on my Outlook files before, but I couldn't remember where I found the tool. I searched my hard drive for over an hour (where's WinFS when you need it) and finally found the tool I was looking for - ScanPST.exe. I also found a new tool for doing the same thing to Outlook Offline Storage (*.OST) files - ScanOST.exe. After running a long overdue Scandisk on both hard drives to correct any drive errors, I ran the fixer against all my files, and now my Outlook is running smoothly again.

So that you don;t have to spend as long looking for the tools as I did, you can find them at:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033

3 Comments

  • Me gustaría poder preguntar a cerca de las implicaciones y mejoras incorporadas en Office System 2003, para saber si este incorpora visual basic for application o el visual basic .NET para sus herramientas avanzadas.

  • That link does nto repair your Outlook data files, just your Outlook installation. Furtherm it only refers to Outlook 2002. While 2003 still has that feature, as I said, it only deals with the program itself, not its data files.

  • We're having trouble with Outlook 2003 randomly corrupting OST files. As long as the files there, Outlook won't open. Remove it and it's fine!

    I't shappened on upwards of 10 pc's now for no apparent reason.



    Any ideas?

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