MS Outlook has made its marks among personal as well as professional users. Bundled with amazing features, MS Outlook allows you to get your hands on many other tasks apart from communicating through emails (find a great deal on Microsoft Office products through electronics for sale in India). However, despite providing great experience, the application may disappoint you with some drawbacks, for example if you have a corrupt PST file.

It is necessary for every Outlook user to know about its storage function. The email client uses Personal Storage Table (PST, usually known as Personal Folders File) to store the entire data of it. The PST file is stored locally on the computer and is easily accessible to extract the data whenever required. The data contained in PST includes email messages, contacts, notes, attachments, calendar, notes etc.

It sounds great that PST handles such important information so efficiently. But, it is also important to keep track on the fact that all the data is bundled in a single PST, which may face an explosion suddenly when the file reaches its limit.

Know that the size of PST file is predefined in every MS Outlook version. Below is the detail about PST file size limit in different Outlook versions:

• MS Outlook 2002 and earlier: PST offers 2 GB
• MS Outlook 2003 and 2007: PST offers 20 GB
• MS Outlook 2010 and 2013: PST offers 50 GB

Now that you are aware of the varied size limits, it is essential to know that when PST reaches or goes beyond this size, it gets corrupt or damaged. As a result, you are unable to access the corrupt PST file, which turns the situation in complete data loss. To combat the problem, you need to repair the PST as soon as possible. Microsoft offers an inbuilt utility for the same, namely Inbox Repair Tool.

Below is the detailing about using the tool in MS Outlook 2013.

Primarily, you need to find out the tool, which is placed at the following location:

<disk drive>\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15

• Quit MS Outlook.
• Click on the ‘Start’ button; go to ‘Find’ or ‘Search’.
• Type scanpst.exe in the box ‘Search for files or folders named’.
• When the scanpst.exe appears, double-click it. (Note that if you do not find the file, locate it manually.)
• Click on ‘Browse’ to select the PST file.
• Click ‘Start’.

After using the tool, you need to start the Outlook to see the recovered folders in the left side. However, you might face issues even after using the tool and fail to recover the lost data. The tool also fails to perform in severe cases of corruption. To deal with such case, you can opt for better option that will work effectively. Yes, there are a number of Outlook PST recovery software solutions in the market. The software will recover the entire data without any loss.