After Inbox repair tool fails
"An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file."
If you are getting this error message when try to repair corrupted PST file with the use of Inbox repair tool and inbox repair tool fails then you have to look for the other option----
Corruption is the main reason for the loss of data from system. Microsoft Outlook application may get corruption due to may reason and this becomes the reason for the loss of data. PST file is the storage of the all items of outlook application and when corruption takes place users encounters with many problem like when user try to access file, they won't able to do that and when they try to do they encounter with error message. This inaccessibility of file makes the loss of data. Whenever user get such kind of issue then it becomes necessary to repair corrupted PST file.
To repair corrupted PST file, inbuilt Inbox repair tool is the prominent and primary tool which can be used. Whatever is the reason for the corruption in PST file, tool tries to repair it and fix corruption issue easily. But sometimes user encounter with error message and inbox repair tool fails to repair corrupted PST file. Here tool won't fix the corruption issue and your problem not fixed yet. After completing some phases of repair process, inbox repair tool stops working and leaves you with the same unaffected corrupted PST file.
"An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file." ]
This is another error which you get during the repair process when inbox repair tool fails.
Reasons for Inbox repair tool failure--
- If PST file get corrupted if its size gets more than 2GB and this happens if you are using Outlook 97-2002.
- Inbox repair tool only consider repairing normal corruption issue but if corruption is severe and if it is in data then it won't able to repair it.
To resolve this issue you can truncate the file size and for this you can use crop utility. It reduces the size of file by deleting some items from PST file. But this is not the sound solution as you are going to lose some sorts of data from file and this is not good. Then what is the solution----At this moment to fix the corruption issue and to repair corrupted PST file you need to look for another solution and that is third party repair tool. This is one of the easiest and safest solutions.
This tool is designed with powerful algorithm which can repair corrupted PST file of any kind of corruption. It repair safely and without affecting any items stored in file.