“An unexpected error prevented access to this file” in Outlook

In Microsoft Outlook, when you attempt to open any file you may fail to do it and might encounter the following error message:

"An unexpected error prevented access to this file. Use ScanDisk to check the disk for errors, and then try using the Inbox Repair Tool again"

In this case, you can open your Outlook account, without any problem. You may see all of your emails, notes, contacts and other data there, but you can not open any file.

In such circumstances, as stated in the error message, you are recommended to use ScanDisk utility. It is a disk checking utility comes inbuilt with your Windows systems.

When the disk checking gets completed, you need to use Inbox Repair Tool or ScanPST.exe to work around the PST errors.

ScanPST.exe is an inbuilt tool of Microsoft Outlook which is able to fix the PST corruption and other minor problems. After completing the process of ScanPST.exe, try to open the files again.

Note: Inbox Repair generally repairs some of the issues with Microsoft Outlook, but it can not guarantee you the complete solution of your problem. The error message mentioned below is very hard to manage using ScanPST.exe as it occurs due to severe fragmentation in hard drive and harsh PST corruption.

In such situations, after applying ScanDisk and ScanPST.exe tools, when you attempt to open your mails in Outlook account, you will get the same error message again.

This behavior occurs due to corruption to the PST file, which can not be addressed by Inbox Repair Tool. In such situations, you may face the nightmare of data loss, which may possibly put you out of the business.

Regardless the cause of this problem, at this point of time, you should think only of the PST recovery solutions. PST recovery can be carried out by repairing and restoring the damaged PST file.

PST repair is best possible using third party PST recovery software. PST recovery software are powerful utilities, which can handle even the severe PST corruption scenarios. These software are easily obtainable from Internet or software vendors.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair software is the best ever made PST repair software, which is powerful enough to systematically scan the entire PST file and extract all of the data from it. PST repair is carried out by this software for all of the Outlook PST objects including emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries and so forth.