Microsoft Outlook Recovery - PST Inaccessible after Moving from Network Share

Microsoft Outlook Recovery - Outlook Personal folders on a LAN/WAN link is an unsupported configuration. The main reason is that .pst files use file-access-driven method for storing the messages, however, on LAN/WAN links, network-access-drive methods are used. As a result, it causes delays when one tries to read or write data from such network stored .pst files. In addition, this can bring corruption to the file. For any reason, if the connection fails or degrades, the .pst file can get corrupt. Thus, it it suggested not to store Outlook personal folders on any network share. However, if you get a corrupt .pst file because of this unsupported nature over LAN/WAN link, you should repair it using Inbox Repair Tool or restore the file from backup. You can alternatively use Microsoft Outlook Recovery software if all the data restoration measures fail.

To better understand such scenarios, you can take the following practical example:

1-You move an Outlook PST file to a network share and then, after sometime, move it to a workstation computer

2-When you try to open this workstation stored PST, it fails to open or shows abrupt symptoms, like all the folders appear empty

Cause

PST might have gone corrupted as you stored it on network share for some time.

Solution

There can be several possible solutions to regain the lost data from corrupted PST:

1-You can try repairing the corrupted .pst file using Outlook built-in utility- Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe). It is a hidden file and thus, make sure you enable the hidden files and folders view before locating it. After the tool is located, specify the filename and path of corrupted file and click to Repair.

2-If this doesn't solve the corruption issue, delete the corrupted file while making sure that you have a complete backup of the file.

3-You can repair the corrupted .pst file by using third-party Outlook Recovery Software. These are suitable products built with safe repair techniques to repair a corrupted .pst file. Microsoft Outlook Recovery utilities are graphically rich products and thus, one can easily use them without any prior technical skills.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a powerful repair application for a damaged or corrupted Outlook PST file. This is a safe Outlook Recovery Software product that supports Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is competent to recover all PST items, which include emails, notes, calendar items etc. It is one of the renowned tools that can repair the file in all types of corruption instances.