Explicating the Process to Open Old Outlook Files in Case of Corruption

The Need to Open Old Outlook Files Often Arises: Being an Outlook user for a lengthy period of time often brings you in the situation where you face the need to open old Outlook files. While working in a corporate environment, the email data never goes obsolete and you might even need some data that was years old. Hence, you need to refer to some old emails etc. This is where you try to find ways to open old Outlook files. You will be glad to know that there are simple and easy ways for opening old Outlook data files.

First Method to Open Old PST File (Not a Recommended One Though): There is a method available to you to open old Outlook files which, however, is not a suggested and recommended method; as it might leave you with many duplicates and thereafter, it will be impossible for you to remove those duplicates using Auto archive. Nevertheless, we are still mentioning this method just for your knowledge. The steps of that method are given below:

• In your Outlook application, first, go to ‘File’
• Then, go to the ‘Import and Export’ menu

Second Method for opening old outlook files (Recommended One): If the first method is not a recommended one then you must be thinking how to open old Outlook files without getting the annoying duplicates. So, here is a method for you to try. Yes! It is an advisable way to open old Outlook files. In MS Outlook 2003 version, you can open the PST even when Outlook is running by performing the following steps:

• Open the file
• Open
• Go to ‘Outlook Data File’ menu
• Browse to find the PST that you want to open

In older versions of Outlook (97, 2000, 2002/XP), perform the following steps:

• Browse the File
• Open
• Personal Folders File

Recovering Old Emails from Outlook In Case Of Corruption? Obviously, there is one annoying thing, which none of you can never negate and can never rule out and that is ‘data corruption’. If such corruption catastrophe occurs, then you are unable to open old Outlook files as they become inaccessible due to corruption. Still there is a simple solution available for you to open old PST files even if they are corrupted, which is to use a third-party tool like SysTools Outlook Recovery software for recovering old emails from Outlook. After the recovery process, you can easily open old Outlook files.