Microsoft Outlook stores all sent and received email, contacts, calendar entries and tasks in a PST file. You can set a password on PST file to protect the emails, contacts, calendars just to prevent accessing the important and confidential data by other users. Once you set a password, and start using the Outlook, you are asked for password to open password protected PST files and it can only be possible to access by you and other people who are knowing the password. If you tend to lose all the data that are password protected you can make use of good Outlook recovery tool which will help you to recover password protected PST files.
Outlook stores all the data in a single .pst file. If the PST file gets corrupted, Outlook will not work, which may interrupt you at work and may also lead to data loss. If you have backup of PST file you will be safe or else you may need use some third party repair tool to repair your corrupted PST files.
There are other various reasons from which the PST file gets corrupted:
- PST file compression: Compression of the files are done to reduce the size of the file, which is harmless. But if you improperly terminate the Outlook while compressing the PST file, it may lead to .pst file corruption.
- Improper termination of Outlook: If there is power surge, the Outlook may get terminated improperly while it is in use. Due to this there might be corruption of .pst file.
- Virus/Malware: If the PST file gets infected by virus, you might not be able to access the data because of infected .pst file. The anti-virus software installed in your computer might delete the infected data.
If you have come across such situation, you can still repair the .pst file. Outlook has in-built tool called scanpst.exe which helps you to repair the corrupted .pst file. The main disadvantage of scanpst.exe is that it read only the header not the content. If scanpst.exe does not understand the content there are chances of further corruption.
So it is better to use some .pst repair application. It will help you to repair the corrupted .pst file and recover the data. Once such application is Remo Repair Outlook (PST), which will help you to repair .pst file and recover all your password protected PST files. It scans the entire .pst file and extracts the data. It will also help you to recover the deleted emails, calendar events, appointments, tasks, RSS feeds, etc. Using this third party application you can get your important deleted mails and other data within few clicks. This application is easy to use, even a first time user can repair the corrupt .pst file and recover his emails without harming the original .pst file. The repair tool has a demo version from which you can evaluate the recovery results. The software also has preview option from which you can preview the recovered data from demo version before downloading the full version of the software.