Know more about oversized PST Repair

MS Outlook is capable to store user’s important data such as mails, contacts, appointments, notes, tasks etc. in the form of PST files safely. But its size increases with the time due to which you start to face problems. As Outlook 2002 and previous versions have a PST file size limit of 2GB and when the size exceeds it, the need for oversized PST repair arises.

Assume a situation when you are trying to open the Outlook files in order to view the mails etc and error message appears on the screen claiming:

“Errors have been detected in the file. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool.”

Cause:

The above error appears when the PST file exceeds its file size limit i.e. 2GB due to which the file get corrupt.

Solution:

To resolve the above behavior and for oversized PST recovery, you can go for the below mentioned steps:

Make use of PST 2GB truncation utility. It works to truncate the oversized file by a specified value and stores the truncated PST file into a new file.

Then use Scanpst Inbox repair tool on the truncated Outlook file which would resolve the existing corruption issues.

But the oversized PST recovery utility has few limitations like it requires at least 2GB of free hard disk space and another one is that it can delete the items in order to reduce the size. So, considering this it is better to go for Split PST tool that works well to split 2GB PST files without any limitation. It guarantees you for efficient division of PST files and then recovers the data comprehensively in an efficient way without taking much of your time. So, just opt this tool so as to perform complete oversized PST repair.