The file size I was working with was a 51GB PST File (Ridiculously Large), to begin with. I recommend this to anyone who has a corrupted file on their hands.
Replace the Corrupted PST File with the newly Created PST File in the Outlook Default Location.ĭuring this process - I did a virus scan on the Corrupted PST File before Importing it into the Office for mac software and found 2 Trojans attached to emails that had to be removed before I could import the file fully. Use SysTools Outlook Mac Exporter ($49) to convert the OLM File to a PST File.ĩ. Copy and paste the OLM file on the PC desktop.Ĩ. Copy the OLM File back to the thumb drive.ħ. Export the emails from Office for Mac 2011 to the desktop via an OLM file (Outlook for Mac).Ħ. Delete any deleted items in the deleted items folder (to reduce the size if not already empty).ĥ. Import the corrupted PST file into Office for Mac 2011.Ĥ. Copy the Corrupted PST file from the thumb drive onto an Apple Mac Computer.ģ. Copy the Corrupted PST File from it's location on the computer onto a thumb drive.Ģ. That email with all the operating information on that new widget order, well that's worth $7,000 bucks, boy I'm going to file that out on the network in the project folder where it should be!ġ. That coupon email is worth 97 cents expired 3 weeks ago eh, it can go in the trash.
You will find people will think more about how to handle that document. Properly assign any important item a mental magic dollar amount to represent it, then decide how to handle that email or document based on it's value. If it's a document that will save you 10 thousand bucks, it better be properly filed away on the network and backed up, not co-mingling with your Kraft cheese coupon emails and fake fax spam.
If there is anything that is absolutely important, teach the user to file it properly into relevant folders, make PDF documents out of the emails and name and file the documents properly. Completely useless crap over 6 years old.Īfter flushing the crap out, make a new PST and move everything that needs to be kept to a new PST and delete the old PST. I deleted a few hundred emails from the local school by searching for local-school I.S.D. I blew away a gigantic folder of read receipts as well. I dropped a 45 gb PST to 38 GB with deleting the above strings and looking for other non-business and short relevance items to delete. You will be amazed the number of items people keep or ignore that should have been deleted decades ago that have these terms and all of it will be absolute junk that was only relevant for short window of less than a week or two. "coupon" (unless you actually work with metal coupons) Once you get the pst straightened out and able to open, search it for these phrases and blindly delete them: Now you can keep a BACKUP COPY of a PST on the network share, and emphasis on BACKUP and COPY which means a second copy as a backup. PST's should never be opened across the network, they are terrible little databases that embarrassingly screw up frequently if disk access over the network is interrupted in any way. I would recommend moving the PST off the network share and onto a local disk to run scanpst on, and to further open the PST file.
I've had to run scanpst 2 or 3 times to straighten a pst out before.