Getting error message when PST file grown up to 4GB
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What to do when PST file get damaged due to oversize
At any point of time, Outlook PST files (mail boxes) reaches or exceed the size limit provided to it (default). It is really hard to manage large PST file by MS Outlook application. It requires great resources and create problem with Outlook. Large PST files are unstable in nature and prone to be corrupted which ultimately result with loss of your important valuable data stored in PST file. You encounter with many problems and error messages when your PST file get oversized. In Outlook 2002 or earlier version, size limit problem is limited to 2 GB. This means if PST file size crosses the limitation of 2GB size, Outlook experience slow performance and PST file tends to be corrupted. But this problem is fixed in the latest version of Outlook, even though they have the problem related with the oversize of PST file. It is recognize that if your PST file reaches or exceeded 4GB then you encounter with such problem like slow work of outlook and corruption. This is the issue related with Outlook 2003 or 2007.
Symptoms of 4GB Corrupted PST files
1. Unable to access Outlook emails.
2. Unable to send or receive mails.
3. Unable to open, load PST file
4. Unable to establish Synchronization with Exchange server.
5. Not able to use PST file even after deletion of some PST objects.
6. Encounter with some error messages like.
Errors have been detected in the file <file_path>. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool. (while start up outlook)
Included option in Outlook to solve this
Microsoft Outlook provides two utility for this situation which help you to repair 4GB corrupted PST file or oversized corrupted PST file and save all PST objects which are stored in the PST file. By using Inbox repair tool provided by Microsoft included in outlook, you can reduce the size of PST by compacting this but many times it result with the waste of time with no good progress. Another option you can try is Oversized PST and OST Crop Utility. After performing work with crop utility you can use inbox repair tool to repair corrupted PST file. Crop utility deletes about 25 MB of data from the PST file folder to bring file size in normal state. In this process you cannot control the data which you lost after deletion.
Easy solution
This way you can reduce the file size of PST file to repair and lose some data. But what if, PST file get damaged before and you have not backup file for that. This would be the annoying situation for you. The easiest and safe method to repair 4GB corrupted PST file is by using the third party app. Tool safely and easily repair oversized corrupted PST file without affecting any other objects stored in PST file.
Features—
1. Easily and safely recover file as a new PST file.
2. Repair and recover all objects of PST file folder like calendar, task, journal etc.
3. Perform thorough scanning algorithm.
4. Designed with intuitive graphical interface.
5. Restore RTF and HTML messages.
6. Data finding from encrypted files.
7. Compatible with all version of Windows operating system.
8. Support outlook 2003, 2007
