PST Corruption Makes Outlook Unable To Open the Folders

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Categorized Under - PST Recovery

 

 

All those users who utilize Microsoft Outlook often face pst file corruption. It happens when you try accessing personal folders by starting Microsoft Outlook and the folders do not open showing an error message that says the system is unable to open the folder. This technical issue results in inaccessibility caused to all valuable stuff in Microsoft Outlook including e-mails, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, notes, journals and other important data. In order to get rid of pst file corruption, users are often suggested to opt for PST Repair solutions.

In a typical working situation, when you try initializing Microsoft Outlook you encounter error messages like mentioned below:

“Error: Unable to display the folder”

“OUTLOOK.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created”

Microsoft Outlook might open properly however when you try accessing folder or set of folders, you may face the above mentioned error messages and the folders won’t open up. During which, the data saved in the folders become inaccessible and therefore in order to correct the damaged pst recovery.

Reason behind the issue- The above mentioned error messages result in data inaccessibility which might be caused due to the following reasons:

  • If the user has not selected a delivery point for emails, click Tools > Services > Delivery and select none in ‘Deliver new mail to following location’ dialog box.
  • PST (Personal Storage Table) file gets corrupt or damaged which makes the data inaccessible

    • If you recognize that the pst file is damaged or corrupt; to gain access to your important data, you can always rely on third party repair pst software utility.

    Solution- In case the cause behind such behavior is undefined delivery point then PST file must be selected as delivery point for your emails. However, if the reason behind the issue is corruption of pst file than exit Outlook and run Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) to perform PST Repair and recover important data from corrupt pst file.

    In case you still are unable to access pst file, it might have damaged beyond repair capabilities of Inbox Repair Tool and hence, the only way to get the data back is through scanning pst file and restoring data from it. The pst recovery software are integrated with state-of-the-art algorithms to scan the pst file and diminish the corruption cause. This PST Recovery software comes with read-only and non-destruction nature to perform secure recovery in almost every corruption situation.