When you try to open your Microsoft Outlook email account, you may get the following error message repeatedly:
"A data file did not close properly the last it was used and is being checked for problems. Performance might be affected while the check is in progress"
The error message occurs if your Outlook has been closed unexpectedly due to power failure or any other reason.
After this error message, Outlook refuses to open and you can’t access anything from your Outlook account.
Grounds of the issue
This problem generally occurs if any plug-in of your Outlook application has got corrupted and due to the same, your PST file has got damaged.
The problem can also occur if the PST file has got damaged due to any other reasons such as application crash, virus attack, and unexpected system shutdown.
Regardless the cause of the trouble, the final results are very devastating and could put you in grave troubles. If the corrupted file contains your business critical emails, notes, contacts and other data, then it could result into the business destruction.
Work around of the trouble
As the PST file is corrupted, it is required to repair and restore it for effective working of Outlook and Microsoft Outlook includes a tool for the same. This tool is known as Inbox Repair Tool or SCANPST.
Inbox Repair Tool works in most of the cases and can perform repair Outlook PST. But in this case, when you try to repair the PST file using SCANPST, it will crash, leaving you in the same state of PST corruption.
In such catastrophic circumstances, you need to use third party PST recovery applications which can perform PST repair in an easy and effective way. These software are provided by several data recovery companies and are able to carry out repair Outlook PST in most of the situations.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST repair is the best ever made and the award winning PST recovery software which allows you to have successful repair Outlook PST in each and every case of PST corruption. This PST recovery software has got a wonderful power of efficiently scanning the corrupted PST file and retrieving all of the data from it.
Using Phoenix PST Repair, you can have repair Outlook PST for all of the objects of Microsoft Outlook including emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries and many alike. This software is applicable to all file versions of Microsoft Outlook including Outlook 98, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007.
Along with the PST recovery, this software can also recover lost PST password and can split the oversized PST file into several individual PST files.
