Re: Corrupt *.pst file

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Indeed.
How large is large?
You can try alternating the IRT with a scandisk utility. If the Inbox Repair Tool still fails to repair the PST file, you can use the following tool to find out what can be fixed:
http://officerecovery.com/outlook/index.htm


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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
<metric4u@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ce4c3e83-be03-41c9-82c5-34835f7a5244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jan 5, 12:25 pm, Mary <M...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Create a new Mail Profile in Control Panel, Mail.



"metri...@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:
> Have a large *.pst file that was running during a power outage, and
> has become corrupt. Outlook help suggests that I run scanpst, which
> returns no errors in any of the file segments in both normal and safe
> mode, but Outlook still can not open. Have created a new *.pst file
> and attempted to import from the old, same results.

> No success with Scanpst, no success with import, no loading through
> adding new folder to existing Outlook. Any thoughts ??- Hide quoted > text -

- Show quoted text -

New mail profile created, but how does that affect the old *.pst
folder ?? Still can't import -or- repair the old folder.

Sorry for lack of understanding.

.



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