PST file corruption??

antalszabi

Hello,

I use a single PST file as my main information store between home and office. The file is 100MB and has recently been compacted. At the office, we have an Exchange Server, and at home I interface with my POP. Ultimately everything gets filed in this PST file which I carry on removable media in order to update whichever machine I am working on. I have recently started running the PST repair utility on this file every couple of days and it almost always detects errors. Below, I have included the output from one I ran just this afternoon. The 2-part question I have is:

1. What causes this corruption in the first place? (I have read a bit off the web and it seems that this is an accepted truth about PST files, however it seems unacceptable to me!)

2. Given the output below, the utility tells me it is "attempting" to do a lot of stuff. Are there any unrecoverable errors in this list? The output wasn't specific enough to reassure me that it fixed everything and that it encountered no un-recoverable errors. The final pop-up confirmation box does actually say that the file was repaired.

Thanks.

S0litaire

I think PST Is basically a terrible format to use for an email system with +10,000's of emails, it just can't cope. It should not be used for long term storage or transport.

Why do you transport Emails between machines this way?
Is their a company restriction on accessing Work Emails from your Home?

Would it not be easier to set up "IMAP" between the Exchange Server and your Home machine. I does the same job as the PST file without the data loss.

bluesnake

in most versions Ms come with free scanpst.exe whch sort if fixes the PST files, but may loose stuff too - always work on a copy

DataNumen Outlook Repair is far better but costs