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mikedepetris
I have some PST mail archive files around in backups/storage drives, some files are recovered from damaged drives/optical supports. Sometimes I find more copies of the same PST file, but a binary comparison reports some differences.
How do I check a PST file is valid or corrupted?
I've tried to look at hexadecimal diffs of files, but that can't tell me which one is good, one has zeroes where the other has (binary) values, but can't say which one is right.
For this situations I usually keep those backups/archives in ZIP file archives, so that I can run an archive test on a bounch of them and have a report of corruption and problems.
I can't find a way to do this for PSTs.
It would be best to do it on a pc without Outlook installed, as this is the case on the WIndows PCs I use to manage archives and backups, but I could even accept to do those special verification procedure on a PC with Outlook, if needed.
Thanks.
How do I check a PST file is valid or corrupted?
I've tried to look at hexadecimal diffs of files, but that can't tell me which one is good, one has zeroes where the other has (binary) values, but can't say which one is right.
For this situations I usually keep those backups/archives in ZIP file archives, so that I can run an archive test on a bounch of them and have a report of corruption and problems.
I can't find a way to do this for PSTs.
It would be best to do it on a pc without Outlook installed, as this is the case on the WIndows PCs I use to manage archives and backups, but I could even accept to do those special verification procedure on a PC with Outlook, if needed.
Thanks.