Scanpst.exe
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What is scanpst.exe
What is scanpst exe location
Sometimes when you try to open Outlook or any PST file you encounter with the message outlook needs to run scanpst for outlook.pst. It indicates that you need to run scan pst exe to solve this issue. Before you know How to find and run the Inbox Repair tool scanpst exe in Outlook you first know what is “ scanpst exe ” and why we use this?
Microsoft outlook stores all information like emails, notes, contacts, calendar, journal entries etc in one single .pst file locally. Due to the rapid use and instead of using several PST file if you try to store all information in one file then the size of file increases and it may exceed to 2GB or 4GB. Due to these two reasons, PST file corruption is confirmed. Whenever your PST file gets corrupted you never able to access file and objects stored in it and there are chances of losing all data stored in it. At this point of time Outlook itself asks to you to run “Scanpst.exe” which is a single executable file provided by outlook included in application to repair corrupt PST file.
Virus attack, misshaping, improper shutdown or any other are also reason for the corruption in PST file. Scanpst.exe which is included in the application can help you to fix this issue. This is first initial step you should take whenever you find that your PST file get corrupted and data stored in it is very important.
First you have to find out the scanpst. exe location. Location varies from the version of outlook you stored and language you prefer. By default location is “C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\". This hidden file so if you are not able to find them then make sure that you have enabled the option to view hidden file. If then not find then search it through window explorer. When you find it double click on it, Inbox repair tool program will launch. Browse PST file which is corrupted and click on repair. Before scanning and repairing it first ask to you whether you want to make backup of file or not. Always select yes. Then it scans and find out error and correct it.
Limitation of Scanpst. exe
Scanpst exe is not fully perfect to repair corrupt PST file. Some where it fails to repair and quit out in the middle of scanning process and leave you with the same corruption issue. PST corruption caused due to oversize of PST like size increase more than 2GB or 4GB, it won't be able to repair and if corruption is severe then also the result is same, NO SOLUTION.
If you use crop utility for PST and OST to reduce the size of PST then beware about data because it deleted data stored in PST to reduce the size. You have no control over your data now. Most of the users unable to find the location of Outlook scanpst exe, so they won't able to fix the problem.
If you are getting above problem with your Scanpst exe then you can use third party provided scanpst.exe (Inbox repair tool) which is well efficient to solve the problem of corruption caused due to any reason. It thoroughly scan file and correct the problem related with this. You should try at once to save your PST data and access it once again. This is more powerful and professional then provided by outlook.
