If you need to repair a damaged or unreadable Outlook file, there are several ways to do it. One way involves using a special tool preinstalled in the program, and the second requires installing Outlook Recovery Toolbox.
Necessary
Outlook Recovery Toolbox utility
Instructions
Step 1
Close Microsoft Outlook. Open the main Start menu and go to the Run command. Enter cmd and click the "Open" button. A command prompt appears, in which you must enter the following text: drive: / Program Files / Common Files / System / Map / _LanguageCode_ / scanpst.exe. In other words, you need to refer to the scanpst.exe file. Instead of the "LanguageCode" parameter, you must specify the ID of the language for which the file is being restored. For the Russian language, the code is 1049.
Step 2
Press the enter button to execute the command. A window will appear, in the line "Enter the file name" you must specify the name of the restored document and the path to it. This information can be found from the error message that popped up when trying to load data.
Step 3
Click on the "Options" button and put a check mark in the "Replace protocol" line. If you want to restore the file to the same folder, then check the "Append protocol" item. Click the "Start" button to let the program start scanning. After its completion, a window will appear in which it is necessary to check the item "Create a backup copy of the file before restoring". Click the "Restore" button.
Step 4
Start the Microsoft Outlook application. Navigate to the Folder List section and open the Go menu. Select the Lost & Found folder, which will contain the recovered data. Transfer the required files to the Recovered Personal Folders folder.
Step 5
Download and install Outlook Recovery Toolbox. Run this application and click the "Open" button and specify the path to the damaged file. If you do not know its storage location, then run the file search command. After that, click the "OK" button for the program to start scanning the data. Specify the folder for storing the recovered files and click the Save button.
