Tools To Effectively Split Massive Pst Files

By Author: Mohit Mathur
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As Outlook users know that MS-Outlook stores its data in a personal storage file called .pst file. In PST file you store mail objects, such as email, contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, attachments, appointments etc which contain valuable data inside it. Due to rapid use of MS-Outlook when size of PST file exceeds or approaches 1.82 GB it starts behaving abruptly. In case of MS-Outlook 2002 and prior versions, it leads to corruption in .pst file. A corrupt PST file shows bad performance. After this you are not able to access your PST file and PST objects including important data.
However, with an efficient Split PST File software you can easily get back your PST data.

When you try to Send/Receive an e-mail in the MS-Outlook you will stuck into below message definitely in case if corruption of PST file is there. An error message will be look like this:

“An unknown error has occurred. 0x80040600”

After receiving this message you will fail to send/ receive e-mails from your system.

Cause:

The cause behind the occurrence of error message is the corruption of the PST files. It can occur due to many reasons like no installation of effective Antivirus software to scan virus, improper system shutdown, system crash etc.

Resolution:

To Resolve above error in Microsoft Windows XP follow the below steps:

1) Close Outlook mail application.

2) Find the Outlook PST file by doing below steps:

2.a) Goto Start >> Control Panel.

2.b) If a Pick a category view is visible then click User Accounts.

If you do not see the Pick a category view, go to step 2c.

2.c) Click Mail >> Data Files >> Personal Folders, and then click Settings.

2.d) Type the Text in the Filename box.

2.e) Click OK.

3) Run the inbuilt Inbox Repair Tool. First of all search Inbox Repair Tool.

3.a) Goto Start >> Search >> All files and folders.

3.b) Type Scanpst.exe.

3.c) Click Search.

If tool is found then open Scanpst.exe. Use the Inbox Repair Tool.

3.d) Type the name of the .pst file you want to repair and press enter.

3.e) After the Inbox Repair Tool operation is complete, click OK.

If you are not satisfied after performing the above steps. Then the only solution is to use a third party Split PST tool. This tool Split Large PST File into small PST files and restores the mail objects, such as(e-mails, contacts, appointments, attachments, calendar-entries, To-do) etc.

Stellar Phoenix PST File Splitter v2.0 is suitable Split PST File software that is used to Split Large PST without any loss of Outlook data. It can split multiple pst files on the basis of date and time, email ids, size etc. Apart from this, the software preserves the formatting of the RTF and HTML messages and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000, and NT4 (SP6).

Mohit Mathur has passion for writing Technical articles. He is right now writing articles related to products like Split PST File & PST Password Recovery and has now become a professional writer.
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