Outlook PST Recovery Issues

[Jezston]

Hi, recently my Outlook PST got corrupted for some reason. I'm sure th
fact it was almost exactly 2.0gb had a lot to do with this (although
thought this limit was long since fixed?).

Wonderfully, I discovered my new SyncToy backup process hadn't been
backing it up! Great.

Outlooks own recovery tool would not work, it would just fail withou
explaination, so I tried a number of 3rd party recovery tools. The onl
one I had much success with (without forking out hundreds of dollars
as a simple home user I couldn't legitimise this expense) was a
application called R-Mail. However this had a side effect of taggin
all of my old emails as Unsent Mail - i.e. all the email in my inbo
sent to me by other people was labelled in the way you would expec
email sitting in your outbox!

So my questions are twofold:

1. Is there any way to easily batch change these emails t
'received/read' rather than 'unsent'?


2. I still have a copy of the corrupted PST file - is there perhaps
better (preferably cheap or free) application I can try to recover m
PST file?

3. Oh and any ideas why SyncToy, despite me telling it to backup th
entire contents of My Documents, wasn't copying my Outlook PS
contained therein?

I'm on Windows 7 Home and am running Outlook 2007 SP2.

Thanks

 

[DL]

You are running OL2007, but is your data file on created with OL2007 or one
from an earlier version?
Have you run your Drive checking utility?
The Outlook data file wont be backed up if its in use

 

[Jezston]

Good point - the PST was probably originally created back when I was
using Office 2000.

Drive check suggests my HD is fine.

When you say 'in use' do you mean when Outlook is running? Or just
generally? Hope it's not the latter!

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Good point - the PST was probably originally created back when I was
using Office 2000.

Then an oversized PST is the likely problem. See this:
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp

When you say 'in use' do you mean when Outlook is running? Or just
generally? Hope it's not the latter!

The former.

 

[Aeroloose]

Hi, recently my Outlook PST got corrupted for some reason. I'm sure the
fact it was almost exactly 2.0gb had a lot to do with this (although I
thought this limit was long since fixed?).

Wonderfully, I discovered my new SyncToy backup process hadn't been
backing it up! Great.

3. Oh and any ideas why SyncToy, despite me telling it to backup the
entire contents of My Documents, wasn't copying my Outlook PST
contained therein?

Not familiar with W7, but your .pst may not be in "My
Documents" (it isn't in XP or Vista). Search for *.pst,
make a note of the exact path, and then set up that path in
SyncToy. You can also back-up other Outlook files (e.g.
archives) this way.

Regards,
Aero