In today’s era several Email client applications are available in web market, some of them are Mozilla’s Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, IBM Lotus Notes, Eudora, and Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is vogue among individual as well as enterprises as they use it astronomically.
MS outlook is not only an Email client application but also work as a manager to manage personal information of the user. User can save his RSS feed, important contact, appointment, calendar event without any hurdle. It has some exciting features like newfangled email client application to organize email, contacts, settings, calendars etc. It provides a set of Rules for emails that help to organize the emails.
However it is ardent software but sometime problematic issues arise like file corruption, data purge and accidental deletion of Rules.
By using the following methods you can retrieve outlook rules and alerts back from corrupted PST file
1. Scanpst.exe
It is an easy and built-in utility to recover the data from corrupted PST file. Here are the steps to use this utility
2. Select outlook mailbox and enter the name of file to repair, if you don’t know the name then click on find outlook file, a dialogue will pop up, from where you can search the file to repair.
3. Click start to begin the scanning.
4. On the successful completion of scanning, all files and folder of recoverable PST will be shown in the pan on left side. You can preview the content by click on them.
5. Select the desired file and folder by click on the check box placed just before the file name.
6. Click on save repaired file option of file menu.
7. Click save as and select the desired file format.
8. Mention the desired location in ‘desired path’ where you want to save your recovered file.
MS outlook is not only an Email client application but also work as a manager to manage personal information of the user. User can save his RSS feed, important contact, appointment, calendar event without any hurdle. It has some exciting features like newfangled email client application to organize email, contacts, settings, calendars etc. It provides a set of Rules for emails that help to organize the emails.
However it is ardent software but sometime problematic issues arise like file corruption, data purge and accidental deletion of Rules.
Causes for deletion of rules are as:
- Network or Lan stored PST Files - This is the most common reason for data loss. This problem occurs when user share his PST file on common network and another user delete sender’s rules as receiver does not require any permission.
- Incidental Deletion - It’s quite often that while deleting unnecessary email or folder unknowingly you remove the Outlook created Rules to make some free space, it results in data loss.
- Outlook improper up gradation - When upgrading the outlook to newer version sometimes rules are deleted and it starts creating problem.
- Error at PST Compression - If some sudden error occurs while compressing the PST file then data loss situation will occur.
- Large PST file - PST files are same as the outlook database files and have a fix size limit but when it outstrip the limit it result in data loss and Rules too.
- Usage of Unauthorized Tools - Unauthorized tools are always dangerous to use because sometime it damage the file and rules.
- Virus attack or malware -Virus attack or malware affect the system, when you install software from a suspicious web browser it will increase the chance of data corruption. This affects the PST and sometime restricts the access of outlook data.
- System Concern - System issues such as bad sectors can make PST file inaccessible and result in data loss.
By using the following methods you can retrieve outlook rules and alerts back from corrupted PST file
1. Scanpst.exe
It is an easy and built-in utility to recover the data from corrupted PST file. Here are the steps to use this utility
- Exit from Outlook and make sure it’s not running in background.
- Search scanpst.exe on system
- Click on scanpst.exe
- Browse the corrupted PST file to repair. Or
- Open MS Outlook then click on
File->info->Account setting->Data Files.
Copy location address of PST file
Close it and Exit from outlook
Paste the path in ‘search for’ of scapst.exe
- Click start and begin the repair process.
- Open outlook after successful completion of process.
- Create a new PST file
- Transfer the recovered items from Lost and Found folder to the new PST
Outlook PST files Repair
It is a complete solution for the overhaul of damaged or corrupt Outlook PST files and all mail items including attachment, and ensures the recovery of accidental deleted e-mails. It stores the repaired data into new PST from corrupted PST. You can import the repaired data into outlook directly.Features:
- It is user friendly
- Allows selective mail recovery
- Provide three pan structures of folders.
- Supports recovery of files larger than 2 GB
- Flexibility to export repaired PST files in Office365 format
- Compatibility of RTF and HTML message formatting restoration
- Encrypted and password protected PST file recovery support
- Provide facility to store data in RTF, HTML, EML, MSG and PDF format.
- It supports MS Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010,2007,2003,2002 and 2000.
Use this simple guideline to recover corrupted PST rules:
Step 1.Open the outlook PST repair software
2. Select outlook mailbox and enter the name of file to repair, if you don’t know the name then click on find outlook file, a dialogue will pop up, from where you can search the file to repair.
3. Click start to begin the scanning.
4. On the successful completion of scanning, all files and folder of recoverable PST will be shown in the pan on left side. You can preview the content by click on them.
5. Select the desired file and folder by click on the check box placed just before the file name.
6. Click on save repaired file option of file menu.
7. Click save as and select the desired file format.
8. Mention the desired location in ‘desired path’ where you want to save your recovered file.
