Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Wed May 20 14:57:16 CDT 2009
I hate to say it -- but good luck with that. :( <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289987/ > <http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/troubleshooting/solutions/292.asp> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296088 I've yet to have anything work. The key is to keep the pst file small and to back it up regularly. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=471 Susan H. > Dear Group, > > My wife, Janet, has been having trouble at work with a large Outlook > PST file...about 500 MB in size. They don't use Microsoft Exchange on > their server (they've got Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 on an > HP server); they use one PC with Outlook to gather their messages. Up > until a few days ago, they'd left copies of all messages on the > server. They stopped doing that and the server downloaded 14,000 or > so messages to Outlook...so the PST plumped up quickly. I think they > did that on Thursday or Friday last week. > > Yesterday Outlook froze when they went to check email. Janet > downloaded and paid for a PST repair tool. When it started the repair > process the PC froze (WIndows XP). I came there today to try and > help. We copied the PST file...during the copy process the PC froze. > Janet had shut off the power about 10 times trying to deal with this. > > We ran the Microsoft ScanPst.exe program on the copy of the PST and it > successfully scanned through and repaired what it could. We were able > to open Outlook using that repaired PST and the new email came in just > fine. However, no history, no sent mail. So there are still > problems. > > We then tried to run the ScanPst.exe program on the original PST file > and the computer locked up. > > I've just never heard of XP locking up so regularly because of a > corrupt file. Any idea what's happening here? > > Thanks, > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com