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What is inbox repair tool ?

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The PST (Personal Storage) for Microsoft Outlook is the repository of all your critical emails, notes, contacts, tasks, calendar entries, journal and personal folders. In several cases, this file becomes damaged due to virus infection, improper system shutdown or other similar issues and gives errors while opening. As an administrator or general home Outlook user, you have to fix it. Microsoft Outlook provides support to handle such issues in the form of Inbox Repair Tool.


Inbox Repair Tool (also known as ScanPST.exe) is an inbuilt utility of Microsoft Outlook, which is used repair and restore damaged or corrupted Outlook PST file. When you first start Inbox Repair Tool, it generally performs a number of tests on your PST file and when it finds that the file is damaged, it prompts you if it can fix the error and also advises to create a backup copy of the file. Before proceeding for repair process, you should always create backup of PST file to prevent further damage.


This tool is specifically designed to scan and repair the inconsistencies found in PST or OST file of Microsoft Outlook. After successful completion of scanning process, it creates a log report, which you can see by clicking the Details button. Inbox Repair Tools is automatically gets installed when you install Microsoft Outlook. To find out this tool, you can use “Search” feature of Microsoft Windows and type ScanPST.exe in the file name.


If you have harshly damaged PST or OST file, you might come across some error messages while using the Inbox Repair Tool. One of the approaches to combat such errors and eventually repair the damaged file in question is to run Inbox Repair Tool three or even four times. After that that error would generally disappear and the PST repair process takes place.



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