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What is Inbox repair tool scanpst.exe?
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Inbox repair tool scanpst.exe is the official tool which a Outlook users can use to repair corrupt PST file and can solve PST file corruption issue. This tool is itself provided by Microsoft Outlook. By default when you install Outlook you get this tool. This tool will save from the loss of PST objects like emails, notes, calendar, tasks etc when your file gets corrupted. When .pst file get corrupted then it highly possibilities of data loss and data is very important for you so you need to repair corrupted file. In easy way you get this tool which efficiently repair file, fix this issue and save you from data loss.
Some points on limitation of using this tool
- Finding location of this tool is always is an issue. Most of the Outlook user not able to find the actual location Inbox repair tool utility. So that they not able to run this tool to repair file and not fix the issue. scanpst location varies from Outlook version, operating system you used and language you prefer for this. So to find out you need to know about the location of file. There are some reasons which make you unable to find this. First, as this scanpst.exe is an executable file and it is hidden, so while you are searching for this then make sure that you have enable the option to view hidden file so that you can locate this. Another reason could be it is deleted from its own vary place or it is not installed at the time installing Outlook. For such user Inbox repair tool scanpst exe download is available.
- If you are able to find it and run it but it is not guaranteed that Inbox repair tool scanpst.exe will solve this issue. Depending on the reason of corruption or the status of corruption, tool works to repair.
- Scanpst.exe Inbox repair tool attempt to repair header of PST file which is corrupted and after this it attempt to delete everything which is not understandable. If you corruption is happens only on header due to up gradation of Outlook version then it won't have any problem to repair file but if corruption is in data then possibilities is it will delete everything which it doesn't understand and leave you with nonsensical error message and you won't overcome from this situation.
- if your PST file gets corrupted due to 2GB or 4GB oversize problem then also this tool is not able to repair file. To use this tool to repair that file you need to reduce the size of corrupted PST file. For that you can use crop PST and OST utility which is also provided by Outlook. Tool will delete objects from PST file to reduce the size of file and then you can use scan pst tool to repair. But this way you have no management over your data which you lost. So it is not good solution.
