Outlook Personal Folder / PST Password Recovery

PST password recovery ,if you have a password protected Outlook personal folder or PST that you can’t gain access to, the following PST / personal folder password recovery tips may be able to help.

Make a copy or backup of your personal folder before attempting the following.

If you have a password protected Outlook personal folder or PST that you can’t gain access to, the following tips may be able to help.

Make a copy or backup of your personal folder before attempting the following.

Make sure you the personal folder has now errors, Run scanpst.exe , this can be found in your Outlook directory, run without any LOG or Backup options enabled against the copy of "pst" and "Repair", if prompted.

Download the file pst19upg.zip from Here!!

Copy both pst19upg.exe and the personal folder / pst file into the same location

Open a Command Prompt and change to the directory they are both in

At the command prompt, type "pst19upg.exe -x NAME OF PST OR PERSONAL FOLDER and hit enter. A progress bar will appear.

This utility will create a file from the target "pst" called FILE NAME.psx" (where file name is the same name as the original personal folder / pst file).

When complete, rename the original personal folder or pst file to something else for example filename-old.pst .

At the command prompt, type pst19upg.exe -i NAME OF PST OR PERSONAL FOLDER.psx" and hit enter. Again a progress bar will appear. This utility now creates a password free "pst" file from the "psx" file.

Run scanpst.exe again without LOG or Backup options enabled against recovered personal folder / pst and Repair, if prompted.

Test access to file using Outlook

This has been tested using personal folders from Outlook 2000 and 2003

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