In this video, I'll demonstrate to you how I use the SysTools OUTLOOK Recovery Tool which I bought
yesterday, to repair the OUTLOOK 2010 email Data File that I have. That data file is one of several
OUTLOOK email Data Files I have. I have now upgraded my OUTLOOK email application
from 2010 version to 2021 version just a few days ago as well. I know that my email
PST Data Files are corrupted, & that is why even though I can open up the files in OUTLOOK,
there are emails that have been lost. A few days ago, I attempted to do repairs on my email PST
Data Files using the free Microsoft SCANPST repair tool. However, looking at the logfile
after the attempted repairs were done, it looks like there are many items that Microsoft SCANPST
is not able to repair. It only seems to do simple repairs, & so I've had to search for a good tool.
And I think the SysTools product is a good tool. I've had to buy SysTools OUTLOOK Recovery Tool for
USD$49 for a Personal License. Before I purchased this license, I downloaded a free demonstration version.
Then I did a test run, & it appears to be able to open up the OUTLOOK PST file & recover items.
So join me in this video as I demonstrate to you how the SysTools OUTLOOK Recovery Tool works. A week ago
I downloaded & used this free Microsoft OUTLOOK Repair Tool called SCANPST. It failed to repair
a lot of items in my PST file. This is the logfile produced by SCANPST after it finished
attempting to repair my OUTLOOK PST Data File. You can see there are many line items where it
detects the file has csFree of a certain quantity whereas it should have a different quantity.
So that's not good. You can also see, here it says it could not find BBT entry in the RBT -
whatever that means but there's a lot of it.
And here it says it's failed to add a row to the FLT.
And so there are many rows that it has failed at. So I do have confidence that it has carried out a
full proper repair of my OUTLOOK PSTdata file. So I purchased the SysTools OUTLOOK Recovery Tool.
When the application starts, it needs System Admin rights.
So this is the SysTools OUTLOOK Recovery screen. Version 8.2, the full version. When it starts up,
it does a prerequisite check for 4 components. Says that my OUTLOOK Profile is not configured,
but that's not true. I'll ignore it because in my test of it the application still works. Go to .
Click on to add the PST file that I want to repair. There are 2 ways of doing it. I
can either if I know where it is, or I can . When I click on ,
this top half of the window applies. When I click on the bottom half of the window applies.
And you will search in the drives . It does not appear to search on network drives.
So this means that you will have to move your file from a network drive to a local drive
for it to find it. But I know where the file is. So I will use & then click on the Browse <...>.
And I have set up a local drive where the test OUTLOOK Data File is located. This is
the file called "OUTLOOK 2010 mail archive 3OCT2015 - test data file to be repaired".
It is of size 1 Gigabyte. Select this file, click & the file will be registered in here.
My OUTLOOK Data File does not have encryption but if it has encryption then click on this to remove
the encryption. And you'll be asked to provide the encryption keys. In my case, there is none.
There are 2 types of encryption SMIME & OPENPGP. I'll click cancel. The 2 types of
you can choose a or . When you have the , it says use this option if the
file has minimum corruption. I mean how do you tell whether it's minimum or not. I might as
well choose , & assume the file is highly corrupted. And then get it to fix it.
And here is the location where you can store the repaired Data File. Click on the Browse <...>.
I will go to the location where I want the output to be stored. I've selected the location. The only
thing I need to do now is to . And you can see it says it's scanning & the status of
progression of the scan. Message box just appeared says "scanning of the selected file completed
successfully. Do you want to save scan?" I will say Yes because when I save scan, it keeps a record of
the scan results for this particular file. Then in future if I want to recover items from the
file again, I do not have to rescan but I can just reload that particular scan result to save time.
You can see on the left a file-structure from the scan results. And it contains Mail, Calendar, Contacts,
Tasks, Notes & Journal. If I just want to look at , Click on that. It will just show Mail if
I click on , it will just show Calendar. just contacts. , , & if I
click on , it shows everything. You will notice that some folders have bold-text & others
do not. The folders with the bold- text contain items, & are not empty. So if I click on Calendar,
it will show you their items. If I click on this folder which does not have bold- text, you'll see
it's empty. A folder with bold-text has items & the folder without bold-text is empty. Next if I
want to recover some items only, or the entire PST Data File, I'll go to click & it brings up
a new window. And it asks me the format in which I want to export - PST, PDF, MSG, EML, HTML, or OFFICE365.
I will keep to PST. And if I expand this folder, I can choose what items I want to export. I want
to select all. So I click on the top, & you see there are now tick-marks on everything. I can
untick one thing or the other. But I'll just select everything. I can choose where I
can choose to split the PST file according to size. I can choose to filter by date, or I can choose the
filter by categories , , , , & . So I'll save that.
I will put a tick to .I will allow .
I will use OUTLOOK & I will . So the System Folders are here on top.
And the User Folders are this. So I just want all the User Folders. I'll browse to select the location
where I want the repaired PST file to be located. In this case, I want it stored in this folder.
Click . It registered the folder location here. I'm ready to click . Now this will take time.
Let's start. You can see it's working through the Calendar folder. The item count is increasing,
& it shows you the destination path that the repaired OUTLOOKPST file is being stored.
Okay, the Export process has completed successfully - as you can see. So that says
the location of the file that has been repaired.
That's the file that has been repaired. I'll close the Export window
So in the folder, that's the file that has been repaired by SysTools. Well! that's it from me.
I hope you can see from this video, it's very simple to use SysTools to recover
& repair my OUTLOOK PST Data File. And if you find that the free Microsoft SCANPST tool does not
completely repair your OUTLOOK PST Data File, then perhaps you want to look at SysTools &
see if that will do the job for you. I do hope you enjoyed this video, & found it useful. Do hit the
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