Monday, March 25, 2013

How to fix error 'this is not a personal folder .pst file' ?

Outlook 2007 uses personal folder .PST files for management of data items from emails to notes, contacts, calendar, schedules, journals, events & everything else. Outlook 2007 supports UNICODE file format for storage & management of data and the 2 GB file size limitation existing in earlier versions is eliminated as well. Yet, PST corruption in one such issue that still remains to be addressed completely and users could at any point of time come across instances as such when the file are found to be damaged for any reason & turned inaccessible thereafter.

The situation can be really shocking for users, when in the attempt to trying to view emails received suddenly an error comes up that reads as - “this is not a personal folder .pst file”. Once this very error message is generated you will find that any item you had there in your personal folder file is rendered unusable.

It happens for the very reason that, the process of PST file access begins with retrieval of information from file header part of file, which then moves to & allows accessing contents from the very file. The file header as you might know comprises of sequence of information about the file, say what it is all about and the data it contains. Additionally, the date of file creation, updates done, size and all other information is stored in this part itself as such inaccessibility concerning the same makes the file unrecognized by Outlook or say the same is made inaccessible.

This calls for the need to get Outlook.pst files repaired at the immediate with the help of equipped PST repair tool. As the name itself implies, the very utility is programmed to do thorough scanning of the files for fixing the errors that exist and making the files usable once again. The advanced scanning capability of the software makes it capable of repairing corrupt files along with recovering the lost & deleted items all easily.


To Know more about how to repair corrupt outlook 2007 PST file, visit -
How Outlook 2007 PST Repair Software Works?
 
Step 1 : Launch PST Repair software and browse to select the file for being scanned




Step 2 : Thereafter, click the scan option to start file scanning



Step 3 : In this process, you can see the scan going on



Step 4 : Once the very process gets completed you can preview the recoverable file components



Step 5 : Save the recovered PST files to destination specified


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