Microsoft office provides a tool, called Microsoft Outlook, for their user to use as email account. Outlook archives your mails in a Personal storage files (PST). The PST files stores Calendar, e-mail, notes, Journal entries and tasks on local window workstations. You are responsible for proper archiving of these data, such as specifying the archiving period, file locations etc. It is very easy way to maintain and manage your mails. But there are some drawbacks of PST files.
- Size of the original PST files. In Outlook 2002 and earlier versions, you can’t store more then 2 GB of PST files.
- PST files are very disreputable for corruption
In Outlook 2002 and earlier versions, if you store more than 2 GB of PST files, then they automatically deletes and data loss may occur. Luckily there is an option that you can manually archive your PST files on your hard drive. You can archive Outlook files by following these three steps –
- In My Documents, create a folder called E-mail.
- While inside that folder you just created, create subfolders for every folder you have created in Outlook beneath your inbox.
- Within those subfolders, create monthly or quarterly folders within which you place copies of every e-mail you store in Microsoft Outlook.
Simply highlight the selection and drag them into the respective folder where you want them archived.
By using this method, you can overcome to the problem of limited storage size of PST files. In these archive folders, you can store much data as you want. In this way, you can solve the storage size problem of PST files. But what happen when data corruption occurs? What should you do?
In these conditions, you can use PST file repair software to repair these corrupted files. There are many software exist for repairing and recovering these PST files. These software provides pst recovery and repair corrupted Outlook PST files.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the such kind of repairing software. This software uses advanced algorithm for scanning damaged or corrupted PST files and show the complete information regarding the mail including sender’s address, subject of the mail, date, time and day.
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