Data Recovery

Steps To Take When Outlook PST File Gets Corrupted Without Warning

Some versions of Outlook place a limit on the size of the PST file but unfortunately do not actually prevent the file from reaching that size. In fact, it does not even warn the user of the file size while the result of crossing the limit is instant corruption in the PST file. Our article looks at how users should constantly monitor the size of the PST file to avoid this problem. Very often, Outlook experts are approached by users who unknowingly have crossed the size limit of around 2 GB,...

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Simplified Steps to Recovering Outlook Data

The Personal Storage Files or PST files can suffer from corruption due to a variety of reasons – from size limits imposed by Microsoft Outlook to malicious attacks. There is a real fear of data being lost under these circumstance and we look at ways in which we can easily recover Outlook data from a corrupt PST file. One of the most popular personal management software, also used predominantly as an email client, is Microsoft Outlook. Just as this software is fairly well-known, the storage...

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Making PST Files Work More Efficiently

Instead of allowing PST files to grow very large in size, it is advisable to keep only active items in the file and moving the others to another folder. We will see how by simply copying unwanted items to a local folder, we can make PST files work more efficiently and make recovery efforts more effective. The Personal Storage file or PST file is where Outlook stores all its data by default. Naturally, over a period of time, as more and more items get stored in this file, the file size...

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