Resolve Errors Have Been Detected in the File Error in Outlook 2007
Like its other siblings, even Outlook 2007 is vulnerable to corruption and other lethal agents that cause it to crash, damage or even corrupt. Mainly when problems like corruption hits Outlook, it is the PST or personal storage file that gets the worst attack which further creates problem like inaccessibility of data from a PST file and error messages like
“Errors have been detected in the file C:\Documents & Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst. Quit Outlook and all enabled mail applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) to diagnose and repair errors in the file. For more information about the Inbox Repair Tool see Help”
where C:\Documents & Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst is the location of the PST file and Outlook.pst being the name of the file that is corrupted. This very error is among some of the very common errors that is confronted by a user in such situations. But it is not that you cannot get rid of this error. Every Office suite comes with an inbuilt utility called Inbox repair tool or Scanpst.exe that is meant for repairing Outlook corruption and is hidden.
In order to get rid of the error, you must find and run the tool as soon as possible. But first you must find cause it is a hidden tool. In order to do that, first you should enable the show hidden files and folders option in the Folder Options menu. Then just go for a simple search, you will get the tool very easily. Now you need one thing more the location of your PST file that by default is C:\Documents and Settings\user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Run Scanpst exe, browse to the PST file that is corrupted and let the tool scan the file to repair it.
When the repair process gets completed, the tool will make a prompt. Thus, Inbox repair tool is not only a free tool but also easy to use. However one thing you must know that Scanpst exe Outlook 2007 tool doesn’t work in all the conditions, there are some demarcations as well. For example, the tool cannot repair the file if it is too big or more than 2GB size in total. In such cases, the tool itself either fails or stops responding meaning that it can’t go further. If not Scanpst.exe then what?
Fortunately, there are third party PST repair tools present and available that can do this without any weird behavior or stopping in between. These kind of tools are very effective and non destructive that can repair a PST file and fix the error very easily.
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