PST file corruption...
I have a client who was running Outlook 2007 on a Toshiba Protege Z835 Ultrabook - plenty of hard drive space, 6 GB of RAM. Almost everyday his archive PST file would corrupt and we would need to scanpst to fix it. This went on for a few weeks. My client decided to buy a new laptop (Lenovo CLT, 256 SSD hard drive, 8GB of RAM) - not because of the PST, he just wanted a new laptop. We transferred his archive PST file over to the new laptop, ran scanpst and attached it to his new Outlook 2010. Everything was working great for about two weeks and then his archive PST file began corrupting daily. I ran scanpst, imported the old PST into a new created PST file but the problem persists. The PST in both cases resides on the local laptop. Any ideas, suggestions?
akb
Is it possible that he is not doing a proper shutdown? If Outlook is open and the battery runs out or he holds the power button for a few seconds and causes a hard power off it may cause the PST problem.
Is your user prone to going to dodgy sites and getting viruses? That habit would transfer to the new machine.
Outlook 2010 works fine and on a properly operating machine will run for many years without a hint of PST corruption.
Outlook 2010 works fine and on a properly operating machine will run for many years without a hint of PST corruption.
How big is the PST file, once it passed 2gb it is really easy to get corrupted, you can split the PST file with smaller size
Outlook 2010 does not have a 2Gb limit and should easily handle that size.
Yes it does not has that limit, and it said 20gb as the supported size, I was saying it is a lot easier to have this type of problem when you have a PST that is bigger than 2gb
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Thank you everyone for your responses. The PST file is 5.6GB in size, but in my experience this is well handled within Outlook 2010. My client doesn't have issues with bad websites; he is a very careful end user. He is doing proper shutdowns; this is something we have gone over numerous times.
Maybe there is something inherently wrong with the PST file.
You could try creating a new PST file and copy all the emails from the old one to the new one.
Hopefully whatever is causing the problem will stay behind in the old file.
You could try creating a new PST file and copy all the emails from the old one to the new one.
Hopefully whatever is causing the problem will stay behind in the old file.
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@akb - I did create a new PST file and imported the data from the problematic PST file.
Sounds like there is something in the email causing the problem. You may have to break the file down into smaller files to try to isolate what is causing the problem.
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I am still working on this guys...any other ideas?
as I said before it is really easy to get corrupted with a large PST file, as I suggested before split you PST file to multiple files.
http://www.datanumen.com/articles/prevent-pst-corruption.htm
http://www.datanumen.com/articles/prevent-pst-corruption.htm
How large is your PST file? If it is larger than 10GB, then it is easy to corrupt. I suggest you to just create several new PST files, then split your emails in the original PST file by copying them to these several new PST files and make sure each one is less than 10GB. Thus will make sure your PST file is healthy.
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Again, thank you for all of the comments and suggestions...I have been pulled away on another project so I will respond in detail to this sometime next week.
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I am still working on this one guys...thanks.
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Any other ideas? No luck with this so far.
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@John Hurst - It was definitely one e-mail causing the issues. I broke the PST file into 4 parts based on years, opened each of the four new PST files and one was corrupted. I was finally able to open it and my client determined he did not want any of the e-mails in this PST files so we are good. Thanks
@Yort - Thank you and I was happy to help you with this.