Microsoft Outlook is widely used in computers. But sometimes we may encounter confused error messages such as "the file xxxx.pst is not a personal folders file". In this article, we will introduce two ways to fix such an error easily, so to help all Outlook users.

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Fix Outlook error
“the file xxxx.pst is not a personal
folders file”

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 The Outlook application is the most
popular installed email client all the time.
Though it has a number of advanced
features, sometimes you may still
encounter bewildered error messages.

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Occasionally, while working with your Outlook email
client or importing a PST file, you may come across an
error : “the file xxxx.pst is not a personal folders
file”, as below:

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First, you can launch the Outlook built-in tool
ScanPST.exe to repair the compromised PST file, as
follows:
1. Launch “ScanPST.exe”.

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2. Using the “Browse” button to select the PST file
to be repaired.

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3. Next, click the “Start” button to initiate the
checking process.
The application will start checking the file and
show the progress.

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4. After the checking process, the tool will report the errors
found. Then, you can click the “Repair” to fix the errors. Select
the check box “making a backup of the scanned file before
repairing” is a good practice to safeguard your data file.

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5. Once the error-fix process succeeds, you
can use files normally.
However, many times, the corruption is too
complex for ScanPST to fix it.
To repair a PST file breezily, you can also take
the help of DataNumen Outlook Repair.

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