Fix the Microsoft Outlook error - “Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file”

Microsoft Outlook is an outstanding application for organizing emails, tasks, notes and other important outlook objects. But as every application has its own limitations so same is the case with Outlook. It might be possible that you face different problems and error messages while working with outlook and sometimes may also loss your entire data. Let’s have a look at some of the common error messages that you might face while working with Outlook .pst file:

Some Common Outlook Errors:

• Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file

• Outlook.pst could not be found

• Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

• Outlook.pst cannot be accessed - 0x80040116.

• Error : 0X80040119

• Error : 0X80040600

• Error : 80040900

The error message “Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file” indicates that your PST file get corrupted and need to be repaired. Once the .pst file get damaged it is necessary to repair it in order to recover all the data. Some of the reasons for .pst file corruption are mentioned as below-

Reasons for PST Corruption-

• Power failure

• Outlook closed improperly

• Bad sectors in hard disk

• Incompatibility with Anti-Virus software

• PST file size increases ( 2 GB size limit)

• Accessing a PST file over a shared connection

Solution :

To repair the corrupt .pst file you can use the Scanpst.exe utility which is provided by Microsoft and get installed automatically during Outlook setup. But the use of this utility is very much limited, like it can’t repair the pst files which are larger than 2 GB. Also it can make changes in the original .pst file due to its repairing procedure. However there are third party tools which can fully repair and recover the .pst file. These tools can be used to repair corrupt .pst file from different version of Outlook and are compatible with all the operating systems including Windows 7.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair tool is an advanced tool which helps you to regain all your important messages, attachments, notes, tasks and other items. This Outlook pst repair tool is now available with upgraded version i.e. V4.5 and offers powerful features like advanced scan, search within recovered items, selective folder recovery and many more. So now recovering pst file is no more a difficult task with this pst tool.

Know more about various other scenarios of PST corruption and their solution from here - http://stellarpstrepair.blogspot.com/2010/07/unable-to-display-folder-out-of-memory.html