| Most everyone who uses a computer today will | | | | symptoms, you need to get a recovery software |
| have an email account set up for them to receive | | | | program that will fix the problems for you so that |
| and send messages. Most of these people will | | | | you do not risk losing important information that |
| even have many accounts that they separate to | | | | you may have stored. The recovery programs |
| use for different areas in their life such as work | | | | on the market today will help you to fix your |
| and family. Email programs that are installed on | | | | email program in several ways, which follow: |
| your hard drive use PST files. These are the | | | | - It will repair any broken PST file that it finds. |
| personal storage table files that hold information | | | | - It will repair any damaged headers. |
| for the program, your saved emails, and events | | | | - It will repair the corrupt PST files that have |
| that you may have put on the programs' | | | | exceeded their storage limit of 2GB. |
| calendar. You can get corrupt PST files for many | | | | - It will restore any emails that may have been |
| different reasons. | | | | lost or accidentally deleted. |
| The main causes of corrupt PST files are as | | | | - It will restore these lost or damaged emails into |
| follows: | | | | a new file with the extension of PST, DBX, MSG, |
| - You could have compacting of your files. | | | | or EML. |
| - The Control Data Extensions could have been | | | | - It will find and repair any PST files that have |
| corrupt or removed. | | | | been damaged and inaccessible to the user. |
| - You could have shut down the application | | | | Most of the recovery programs that you find on |
| improperly. | | | | the market today are very easy to use. It can |
| - There could have been a human error or a virus | | | | be very complicated to fix and repair corrupt PST |
| that was acquired by the email application. | | | | files because you have to first locate these files. |
| - The file size of the PST file could have been | | | | The recovery programs have a wizard that will |
| over extended past its 2GB file size. | | | | guide you through the whole process of fixing |
| You will know when you have a corrupt PST file | | | | your email application. The program will scan for all |
| because Outlook will work very slowly. Your | | | | the Personal Storage Table files on your |
| program could start locking up on you or freezing. | | | | computer. The program will show you the files |
| Then when you close the program because you | | | | that it found, and you just have to save what |
| are having problems, you could actually make the | | | | you want into a whole new file. |
| corruption worse. When you see these | | | | |