Wednesday 30 December 2015

Fix Outlook PST error “.pst is not a personal folder file”



The best example of Microsoft’s technology is the MS Outlook, and it has become very popular among large numbers of peoples are using Outlook for emailing purpose. It is a personal information manager that manages all the personal information and emailing data. But apart from all this, it sometime starts displaying errors due to some internal/external factors and due to error it sometime stops performing totally or start working unusually.

The common error messages that appear is given below with solution to fix it:

It is related to the Outlook PST file for ex .pst file. It is important file responsible for maintaining the entire Outlook data, so it should be handle carefully. If dye to any internal or external factor if .pst file get damaged then it leads you with the loss of Outlook data. So if you are getting “.pst is not a personal folder file” error message from your Outlook email service then your Outlook PST file is damaged, but don’t worry. You can fix this error with the below given solution.

Steps to Fix “.pst is not a personal folder file”:

To fix this annoying issue repair the corrupt PST file, and for this you can apply some free inbuilt tool. Make use of the Microsoft Inbox repair tool (Scanpst.exe) inbuilt tool, this tool help you to scan and repairs the damaged PST file. 

At first you need to find the location of Scanpst.exe on your computer system.

The different version of MS Outlook has the predefined location or path of scanpst.exe is mentioned below. 

In MS Outlook 2013 :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15

In MS Outlook 2010 :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

In MS Outlook 2007 :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

After finding the scanpst.exe now you have to spot the location of damaged .pst file on your computer in order to scan and repair it.

Below default location of PST file is given:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook.

For Windows XP based PC:

C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\

And lastly, implement the Scanpst.exe and scans the damaged outlook .pst file. But it might happen that this inbuilt tool might display some error that it has initiated in the damaged PST file. And also it may happens that this repair tool gets unable to find any error and in this situation to fix this error make use of the PST repair tool. This type of tool is very efficient and specially designed to deal with any large types of corruption in PST file. This tool is very simple to apply, simply download, install and run this application. It will make your PST file error free and so you can use it without getting any error.

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