Outlook 2003 creates corrupt PST files

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

So, is your only symptom the loss of Context menus? Is that what you mean by
PST file corruption?

 

[Neil Jones]

No, not just that. What I mean by file corruption is
that when I can't access context menus and I try and use
the toolbar to edit/delete an item instead, I get a
dialogue box telling me my PST file is corrupt and to run
scanpst, which also confirms errors in the file.

-----Original Message-----
So, is your only symptom the loss of Context menus? Is that what you mean by
PST file corruption?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My experience (see earlier post) is:

I upgraded from Outlook XP to Outlook 2003, and made no
changes to my existing PST file - Outlook 2003 appeared
to work fine with it to start, but after a while I
couldn't right-click on any Outlook item (e-mail,
calendar appointment etc), so I ran scanpst, which
reported and fixed errors. a second run of scantpst
reported no errors. However, after running Outlook, the
file soon became corrupted again (same symptons).

I tried creating a new PST in 2003 format (properly, via
Outlook), and imported everything from my old PST file.
However, I still keep getting the same problem, i.e. my
PST file seems to keep getting corrupted "by" Outlook
2003. My PST file is approx 600MB.

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