On Saturday, January 24, 2009 3:47 AM Roady [MVP] wrote:
Depending on the size of your pst-file and the amount of corruptions in it,
the 8th phase can take quite a while and the program may seem unresponsive.
How big is your pst-file?
How long did you let scanpst.exe run?
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"Steve R" <steve at subdivision.net.(donotspam)> wrote in message
On Saturday, January 24, 2009 9:28 AM DL wrote:
You did this whilst Outlook was closed?
You checked task manager for any instances of outlook.exe and ended them?
Was the msg to use 'inbox repair tool' out of the blue, or have you had
other PC problems?
"Steve R" <steve at subdivision.net.(donotspam)> wrote in message
On Saturday, January 24, 2009 9:52 AM Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
How big is the .pst file?
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After furious head scratching, Steve R asked:
1. Size of .pst file = 3,914,999
2. Outlook and all instances of it were fully "closed."
3. No other PC problems whatsoever; problem arose clearly out of the blue.
PC and OUTLOOK (& other MS Office 2007 programs have been operating
flawlessly (unlike under former PC with XP) ).
Initially, when starting up OL2007, small box announced that the data file
'Personal Folders" was not closed properly. About 40 seconds thereafter, the
'Inbox Repair' window popped up, after OL completely closed.
Harddrive is 142 GB with only 10 GB free.
a. Would freeing up space give scanpst.exe more "room" to work?
b. Is .pst too large to be handled by scanpst?
If so, can I break it up with something like "hjsplit.exe"?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
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Steve R
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On Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:35 AM DL wrote:
Your HD has insufficient free space for the correct operation of the o/s,
you need a minimum of 15% free space for win to function without problems
Thats not to say that scanpst would run correctly if you had sufficient free
space
You can reduce the size of the pst by the use of the Archive options - you
dont lose access to what is archived
"Steve R" <steve at subdivision.net.(donotspam)> wrote in message
>)
DL and Milly:
Thank you to both of you for your prompt responses.
DL's observation that my "...HD has insufficient free space for the
correction operation of the o/s..." was RIGHT ON THE MONEY.
After transferring sufficient data from my HD to "storage" - I opened up 34
GB of 142 Total (this took close to 4 hours!).
Then I ran scanpst.exe, which took another hour.
It repaired the Outlook.pst.
I thank "backed up" the 3.9 GB Outlook.pst.
Finally, I opened Outlook and archived what I though was at 2/3'sof my 3.9
GB.
******QUESTION:
******Why do 3.0 GB still "show" in my Outlook.pst - AFTER the archiving?
Those emails and attachments are no longer in my OUTLOOK INBOX/SEND BOX.
******Is there a "compaction" program that must be run?
Thank you again. I look forward to you answers on the aftermath questions.
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Steve R
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On Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:52 AM Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
You now need to compact your .pst file. Right click on the root of the
mailbox (usually outlook today) and select properties, then advanced. Use
the "compact now" option - usually 3 times is the charm.
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After furious head scratching, Steve R asked:
1. MILLY: Compacting: "3 times is the charm"
.....Well, maybe, maybe not. It sure takes a long time to compact. I've
done it twice now and it went from 3.9 GB to 3.2 GB.
BOTH TIMES Outlook hung up and the "Not Responding" message occurred. Ugh!
But the GB's did go down.
Is there some better, faster trick to this?
2. ROADY: Thanks for your response. My .pst was 3.9 GB.. What did the
trick was making about 20% open space available on my HD (from less than
15%). Scanpst.exe took about 1 hour to 1-1/2 hours.
SEEMS like there could be an easier & faster way to ARCHIVE, REPAIR and/or
COMPACT.
********Does Apple have these same issues? :>)
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Steve R
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Use the "compact now" option - usually 3 times is the charm.
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AND
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Yes, as it is not an operating specific issue;
-databases contain white space to operate correctly
-big databases take a long while to check
-hard disk performance decreases when less than 15% free spaceis available
-other processes can fail when there isn't sufficient free space available
All of the above apply to your case ;-)
Outlook has a background process running which removes the white space from
a database when the computer is idle and the database consistsof more than
5% white space. With insufficient free space, this automated background
process can perform optimally or at all and you'll have to do the
maintenance manually.
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Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
http://www.msoutlook.info/
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"Steve R" <steve at subdivision.net.(donotspam)> wrote in message
On Monday, February 01, 2010 4:25 PM Are Dub wrote:
This is normal in my experience. I usually see ScanPST sitin this state for about 30 - 40 minutes when repairing my 1.5GB PST file. In Task Manager, it shows that it's drawing 1 - 3% of the CPU. It eventually finishes -- you might have to be patient. I don't know whether this a standard throughput rate for ScanPST, but based on my results it takes about 20 - 25 minutes per GB.
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