Stellar Repair for Outlook is an Outlook PST file repair software to recover your mailbox items such as emails, calendar, contacts, notes, etc. from a corrupt or damaged Outlook PST file with 100% integrity.
A Personal Storage Table or PST is an Outlook Data File that stores an offline copy of all Outlook email items such as mails, calendar, contacts, notes, etc. on your local PC. This Outlook Data File (.pst) is generally used to backup or export mail items from one Outlook email account to another.
PST also helps you free up storage space and avoids exceeding mailbox size limit on your mail server. But with time and usage, the size of the PST file may reach several GBs. An oversized PST file is more sensitive towards storing further data and becomes more prone to corruption. Ideally, a PST file should not exceed more than a few GBs.
Further, a PST Outlook Data File may also corrupt due to reasons such as bad sectors, virus or malware intrusion, incompatible Outlook plugin, improper Outlook app termination, unexpected power loss, Outlook account deletion, etc.
However, with tools such as Stellar Repair for Outlook, you can repair a damaged or corrupt PST Outlook Data File and get back access to your Outlook account and mailbox items without much downtime.
We recently got our hands on Stellar Repair for Outlook software and here is a detailed review of the software. This review will help you understand the product and most importantly, when and how to use it.
Stellar Repair for Outlook—A PST Repair Tool
Stellar Repair for Outlook reconstructs a corrupt or severely damaged PST file and saves it in a new usable Outlook PST file. It extracts the mailbox items from the inaccessible PST Outlook Data File. It also repairs encrypted or password-protected PSTs and features several advanced options that help you retrieve your emails, contacts, notes, calendar, and attachments quickly.
Also, you can split a large PST file into smaller equivalent PSTs. This helps avoid PST file corruption due to oversizing. You may also choose to compact repaired PSTs and save storage space on your local drive.
Benefits of Using Stellar Repair for Outlook
Stellar Repair for Outlook features the most easy-to-use user interface, which is inspired by MS Outlook app. With familiar interface, the tool makes it easy for a user to repair, preview, and save mail items in multiple file formats such as EML, MSG, RTF, HTML, PDF or export a repaired PST file directly to Office 365 account.
With this software, you can fix any PST file with size ranging from a few MBs to several GBs—there is no file size limitation.
After scanning a corrupt PST file, the software lists all email items in a ‘tree-like’ structure and provides an enhanced preview of your mailbox items—displays email body text, embedded (clickable) hyperlinks, calendars, tasks, journals, and contacts. You can click on the previewed URLs and hyperlinks in emails to open them in a web browser. Also, you can view messages in 3-diffrent formats.
The software also recovers and previews deleted email items even if the mailbox items were emptied or further removed from the ‘Deleted Items’ folder in MS Outlook. After the scan, you can save the scan information, which helps you resume PST repair and export process later. This also saves time and comes handy when the PST file is large or severely corrupt.
Use ‘Find Message’ option to locate and save the most important mail items quickly. You can export individual mail items to MSG, EML, RTF, HTML or PDF format.
The software works with MS Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003 and supports Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. You can use the software in any of the five international languages—English, German, French, Italian, Spanish.
Software Features:
- MS Outlook style GUI
- Repairs corrupt or inaccessible PST files
- Recovers mailbox items from encrypted PST file
- Recovers lost mail items from emptied ‘Deleted Items’ folder
- Exports and saves recovered PST file data in multiple formats
- No PST file size limit
- Features Save Scan and Load Scan option for large PST file recovery
- Displays mailbox items in an MS Outlook inspired interface
- Enhanced preview feature for mailbox items
- Saves individual mail items in multiple formats
- Saves repaired PST file as new PST file
- Find option to locate mails faster
When to use Stellar Repair for Outlook
- To recover mailbox items from a damaged PST file
- Fix Outlook performance issues & errors
Use the tool to fix common MS Outlook errors such as,
- The file xxx.pst is not a personal folders file
- Errors have been detected in the file X:\folder\xxx.pst. Quit Outlook …
- Unable to display the folder. The file xxx.pst could not be accessed
- Outlook PST/OST file is slow or unresponsive
- When Inbox Repair Tool (ScanPST.exe) fails
ScanPST.exe or Inbox Repair Tool is an MS Outlook utility that helps you fix a problem with a PST file. But if you see errors such as,
- Inbox File Repair Tool does not recognize the file xxx.pst…
- An unexpected error prevents access to this file….
And if scanpst.exe hangs endlessly, use Stellar Repair for Outlook to get it fixed.
- To recover deleted mail items
- To export PST mailbox items to different file formats
Pricing
The software is free to download. The demo version lets you scan a damaged or corrupt PST file and preview mail items. You can also save the scan information to resume PST repair later after activating the software. You can choose from options:
| License Type | Price |
| Professional | $xxx |
| Technician | $xxx |
| Toolkit | $xxx |
The license is valid for the lifetime. To see a full comparison in the official page.
Conclusion
Stellar Repair for Outlook is a powerful PST repair utility for Windows to fix common issues related to MS Outlook and Inbox Repair Tool (ScanPST.exe). It repairs a corrupt or inaccessible PST file damaged due to virus or malware intrusion, abrupt shutdown or Outlook app termination, incompatible plugin, disk error, etc.
The software also recovers from encrypted PST files and provides options to export mailbox items in a new PST file. You may also export individual emails or mail items to other file formats and export repaired PST directly to Office 365.
