The trouble with PST files and your frustration
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Written by Atila on November 20, 2008 – 9:46 am
Why PST files are so important? They are important because they represent the centralized place for data and email storage. All the information pertaining to your Outlook Express emails, contacts, personal folders, calendars etc., is stored in the Outlook PST file.
What you may not realize though is that PST files are susceptible to several different types of problems. Sometimes they may reach critical size (over 2gb) or become simply corrupted. The trouble with PST files is that they are notoriously unstable; they are easily corrupted, and the larger they get the more likely data will be lost.
When PST Files Become Damaged or Corrupt.
When your Outlook PST files are damaged or corrupt due to various reasons and you can’t open them in Microsoft Outlook, you can use either the Inbox Repair Tool or third party applications to scan the PST files and recover the data from these files.
There is an awesome website, pstpanic.com, which takes a more amusing approach to the problem by requesting registered users to submit either a photo of your stressed admin, or a photo of yourself showing how stressful and frustrating your job can be; screenshots of a horrible software crash and, for those creative people, an edited photo of all the very wrong things you would want to do to your PC when you find out that your PST files are damaged and unrecoverable! here is how to submit your photo to pst panic:
And there are some excellent prizes to be won too! The first prize is a $250 Amazon gift voucher, whilst the 2nd and 3rd places get a $150 and $100 Amazon gift voucher respectively. A $10 Amazon gift voucher will also go to the first 50 people who submit their photo. And that’s not all!! Five randomly selected administrators will also get their very own free copy of GFI MailArchiver.
The first prize is a $250 Amazon gift voucher which will go to the most frustrated admin!
2nd and 3rd place get a $150 and $100 Amazon gift voucher respectively
As a token of appreciation, we will also be giving a $10 Amazon gift voucher to the first 50 people who submit their photo.
The closing date for the competition is 31st December 2008;
