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To access these folders, you can type the path in the Address Bar or File Name field of the Explorer dialog that opens when pressing Browse…. The Inbox Repair Tool scanpst. After you have selected the pst-file to scan, you can press the Start button. At this point, nothing will happen to your pst-file yet; scanpst will do an analysis first. This analysis consists out of 8 phases of which some can take quite a bit longer to complete than others depending on the size and level of corruption of the file.

Analysis in progress…. After the analysis scan has completed, it will present you with a scanning report and options for the next step. You can press the Details… button for more information about the type of corruption. Errors were found but you are almost ready to repair them. Before you continue to the actual repair process, make sure you have a backup of the pst-file. If you do not have a backup already, make sure that you have the option set to make a backup before proceeding selected by default.

After pressing the Repair button, the actual repair process will start and go through the 8 phases again. With a very large pst-file larger than 4GB and a slower hard disk, this process can sometimes take longer than half an hour. Note: When the repair process starts, it could appear that it will hang directly Not Responding in Title Bar. In reality, it is not hanging but making a copy of your pst-file in the background or already has started the repair process.

Depending on the size of your pst-file and the speed of your hard disk, this can take a while. Then, make a copy of your pst-file manually and restart the Repair process but this time with the Backup option disabled. EXE to diagnose and repair errors in your Outlook data file. The Inbox Repair tool checks the Outlook data files on your computer to see if they're in good shape. If you're using an Exchange email account, you can delete the offline Outlook Data File.

The Inbox Repair tool doesn't connect or analyze any data stored in an Exchange mailbox. The tool only looks for errors corruption , and if there are any, gives you the opportunity to allow the tool to fix those errors.

If you can't start the Inbox Repair tool, you should try to repair your Outlook program. We recommend backing up your existing Outlook data file before you start the Inbox Repair tool. For more information, see How to back up an Outlook data file. Select Browse to select the Outlook Data File. Note: By default, a new log file is created during the scan. You can choose Options and opt not to have a log created, or you can have the results appended to an existing log file. If the scan finds errors, choose Repair to start the process to fix them.

Note: The scan creates a backup file during the repair process. Starting in Outlook , version build You can now choose to have the Inbox Repair tool run automatically until a steady state is reached.

Any of the following command line arguments enable the new functionality. Other command line arguments are covered in the Command-line arguments table. If these command line arguments are not used, the legacy code of the tool is used, and the tool behaves as it does in earlier versions. Therefore, you have to run Scanpst. In the Search for files or folders named box, type scanpst. Type the path and the file name of the personal folders.

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