The blog explains the importance of PST encryption and provides the solution to recover emails from encrypted PST files. It describes the complete procedure to repair PST files that are password protected and restores them into an unencrypted format.
MS Outlook is one of the most popularly used emailing clients in business. The application acts as a personal manager that organizes data in an efficient way. Outlook uses PST as its data repository that contains the entire mailbox data including emails, calendar entries, contacts, tasks, journals, etc.
The PST file is stored locally on the client machine and can be accessed independently without connecting to the Server. Sometimes, these files contain crucial information and therefore needs to be protected from unauthorized access. MS Outlook offers the feature to encrypt PST using passwords as this safeguards incorporated data against invalid access and unnecessary data editions.
Password protection for the PST files is beneficial as long as the encryption code is well remembered by the user. The situation becomes worse when the password is no more remembered and the access to PST file is lost. Under such situations, you need to recover the encrypted PST file. Moreover, the PST files are prone to corruption that occurs due to damage to the file, corrupt file header, virus attack, oversized PST, and similar issues.
Since Outlook data files are bound to store a stipulated volume of data, it turns inaccessible once this pre-defined storage cap exceeds. In such cases, the corruption is considered severe as data gets deleted or the file becomes inaccessible. In several cases, Inbox Repair Tool, the built-in utility, can be used to fix minimal corruption issues in the PST files; however, it is not much help when the damage is higher.
There are other limitations as well as the tool is bound with. It does not repair the password protected PST file and retrieves data from only the mailboxes that are not encrypted. These limitations make the built-in utility quite restricted to fix few issues only.
Repair Encrypted PST Mailboxes
Excluding the Inbox Repair Tool, there is no integrated way to recover encrypted Outlook PST files or logically corrupt files. Only professional repair solution is the only way to retrieve data from encrypted Outlook PST files when other tools fail to do so. Stellar Repair for Outlook is a third-party tool that helps gain access to data stored in encrypted files.
Other than encrypted PST file recovery, the PST repair software is capable of retrieving data from oversized mailboxes and highly corrupt PST files. The procedure to retrieve data from encrypted PST files is simple, straightforward, and user-centric as well. Follow the steps below:
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The Way Forward
Stellar Repair for Outlook is an efficient software to recover emails from encrypted PST files as it does not ask for the password while processing the encrypted files. The recovered PST file does not ask for password while you attempt to access it.
Eric Simson is an Email Platform Consultant and is associated with Stellar Data Recovery from last 6 years. He writes about the latest technology tips and provides custom solutions related to MS Outlook, MS Exchange Server, Office 365, and many other Email Clients & Servers.
I have got a bad response with ScanPST.exe. But can’t invest $99 on Stellar Repair for Outlook due to financial issues. Please suggest to me any free alternative.
Hi Naomi, In case of severely damaged Outlook PST file, ScanPST.exe might fail to fix it. There is no trusted free ScanPST.exe alternative available online. You can download the free demo version of Stellar Repair for Outlook to analyze results in preview mode.
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My IT team had successfully recovered 3456+ emails from encrypted PST file of Ex-employee. This tool did all things beyond our expectations.
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Can I copy the PST file to an external drive and then look at the copy with Stellar Viewer for Outlook?
Yes!
I have forgotten the password of damaged Outlook PST file. Is it possible to recover those emails?
Yes!
Our software uses an advanced algorithm to repair encrypted Outlook PST file and then recover all emails.
Is it possible? I want to verify this feature.
Of-course!
You can download the free demo to verify all features of the PST repair software.
Is it possible to recover emails from encrypted PST file? If yes, then how can I verify this feature without purchasing the software?
Hi George,
You can verify all features through a free demo of Stellar PST Repair. If you face any technical issue, then consult with the technical support team at:
+1-877-778-6087 (Toll-Free).
After getting bad response from ScanPST.exe, I am planning to test Stellar PST Repair. I hope, it will fulfil our need.
No Problem!
You can try our free software i.e. Stellar Viewer for Outlook. This software is providing an option to view emails of corrupt Outlook PST file.
Even, you can save the emails into multiple file formats like MSG, RTF, EML, HTML, or PDF. But, you can’t save into PST file format.