When you use Microsoft Outlook to open a corrupt personal folders (PST) file, you will see various error messages, which may be a bit confusing to you. Therefore, here we will try to list all possible errors, sorted according to their occurring frequency. For each error, we will describe its symptom, explain its precise reason and give a sample file as well as the file fixed by our Outlook recovery tool DataNumen Outlook Repair, so that you can understand them better. Below we will use ‘filename.pst’ to express your corrupt Outlook PST file name.

Although Microsoft provides Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) to fix problems in corrupt PST files, it cannot work for most of the cases. Blow are frequently encountered problems when Inbox Repair Tool fail to work:

Additionally, while using Microsoft Outlook, you may frequently run into the following issues that can be effortlessly resolved with DataNumen Outlook Repair:

In addition, when you using your mobile phone to synchronize the data with the Microsoft Outlook on your desktop, you may also lost emails and others items due to the synchronization errors or software defects. In such a case, you can also use DataNumen Outlook Repair to recover the lost items.

Sometimes, when you encounter an Outlook problem, it is a little difficult to determine the real reason. In such a case, you can diagnose the problem step by step and find out what is wrong with your Outlook.