Resolve the “error in Background Synchronization” message

Microsoft Outlook makes use of PST files to store personal documents such as emails, documents, contacts, notes, journals and many more safely. But the biggest limitation with Outlook 2002 and its earlier versions is that it limits the size of the PST files to 2 GB. If the limit exceeds, the files subject to corruption leading to inaccessibility and further can also lead to data loss situations. So, to fix PST over 2 GB problems, you can use PST Repair tool.

Suppose a situation where when you are trying to access emails or contacts from the PST files, an error message gets displayed on the screen stating:

“Error in Background Synchronization”

The main reason of this error is the corruption of PST file due to oversize. The file size limit has exceeded beyond 2 GB making the PST file corrupted. As the file gets damaged, user is not allowed to access the PST files and hence the need arises to repair PST over 2 GB problems as fast as possible. Below are some points going through which you can fix the above error:

Use Crop Utility tool:This tool trims the oversized PST files by 25 MB so that its size reduces and you can use it easily. Best results are obtained only when the reduction is done in the range of 20 -25 MB.

To fix 2 GB PST file, you can also Compact PST file such that its size reduces to minimum

Creating a new PST file and archiving the data form the old outlook file to the new one.

But only in few situations these solutions may be effective to fix PST over 2 GB, for other cases you can make use of PST Repair tool. This tool is specifically designed to efficiently split 2GB PST file into smaller divisions depending upon various criteria like split by size, email id or folders etc. Then after, you are free to use the divided PST files with Outlook. After splitting the large sized PST files, the speed of the Outlook gets increased along with its performance.