Outlook Email Recovery

Due to the simplicity in the operational structure of MS Outlook, it is being treated as the most popular email messaging system around the world. People find Outlook truly simple to function and operate with it. But, the data storage issue in Outlook is the matter of big concern as minute disturbance in the database can cause huge data loss. Outlook saves all files and folders along with email messages in PST files which are opened when the user accesses Outlook. Sometimes, these PST files get corrupted, damaged or accidentally deleted which further cause vital loss in the data. This kind of situation can only be resolved by using powerful data recovery mechanism.

Sometimes when you start Outlook you receive these error messages:

• Outlook cannot open the data file filename until it has been checked for problems
• Microsoft Office Outlook’ exited without properly closing your Outlook data file ‘drive: \Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost’.‘Microsoft Office Outlook’ must be restarted.
• The data file< filename> was not closed properly’. This file is being checked for problems

Reason behind occurrence of these error messages is improper shutdown of the PST file. You may face this issue till the time Microsoft completes the reconciliation process.

An incorrectly shut down .ost file or .pst file may occur for one of the following reasons:

• Antivirus scanning of the file
• Forced Microsoft Windows shutdown before the Outlook.exe process shuts down completely
• Outlook add-ins

If you see this issue frequently, and you have to exit Outlook shortly before you shutdown your computer, it will be better to shut down Windows while Outlook is still running. We recommend that you to do this instead of exiting Outlook and then shutting down Windows shortly after that.