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Outlook PST File 3 minute read

How to Recover Emails from Encrypted PST File with PST Repair Tool?

Updated on May 14th, 2020
Eric Simson
Written By
Eric Simson
Kuljeet Singh
Approved By
Kuljeet Singh

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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  1. Download and run the software.
  2. From Select PST File for Repair dialog box, select or find the PST file that needs repair. Click on Browse if the location of the PST file is known. Alternatively, click on Find if you do not know the location where PST file is stored.
  3. Next, click on Start button to initiate the scanning process

Additional Information!

  • When the tool runs the process to recover encrypted PST file, the status of the scanning process is displayed in the status bar.
  • The time that the tool takes to accomplish the scan process depends upon the volume of the PST file and the intensity of damage.
  • If the PST contains the higher volume of data, the scan process may take some time.
  • The scan process can be stopped in between by clicking on the Stop
  1. When the scan is completed, the tool will display all the recovered files along with the folders in the left pane. Click on any file or folder to preview the incorporated contents within the panel.
  2. After accessing the PST contents, click on the checkboxes to select the desired files and folders. Once all the files that need to be recovered are highlighted, click on Save Repaired File icon available on the File
  3. Next, under ‘Save as’ section, select the file format you need to recover the data to.
  4. Under Destination Path, provide the location where you want to store the recovered file.
  5. Click on OK to accomplish the encrypted PST file recovery process

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.

About The Author

Eric Simson

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.

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14 comments

  1. Naomi Simon says:
    January 12, 2021 at 9:39 am

    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.

    Reply
    1. Eric Simson says:
      January 14, 2021 at 6:45 am

      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.

      Reply
  2. Davis says:
    April 16, 2019 at 4:50 am

    Great!

    My IT team had successfully recovered 3456+ emails from encrypted PST file of Ex-employee. This tool did all things beyond our expectations.

    Reply
    1. Eric Simson says:
      April 18, 2019 at 6:39 am

      Great!

      You can also share your feedback on Trust Pilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.stellarinfo.com

      Reply
  3. Wally de Jongh says:
    December 6, 2017 at 11:41 pm

    Can I copy the PST file to an external drive and then look at the copy with Stellar Viewer for Outlook?

    Reply
    1. Eric Simson says:
      December 7, 2017 at 8:27 am

      Yes!

      Reply
  4. Evans says:
    June 27, 2017 at 12:43 am

    I have forgotten the password of damaged Outlook PST file. Is it possible to recover those emails?

    Reply
    1. Eric Simson says:
      June 28, 2017 at 9:14 am

      Yes!

      Our software uses an advanced algorithm to repair encrypted Outlook PST file and then recover all emails.

      Reply
  5. Hardy says:
    June 19, 2017 at 3:01 am

    Is it possible? I want to verify this feature.

    Reply
    1. Eric Simson says:
      June 20, 2017 at 5:08 am

      Of-course!

      You can download the free demo to verify all features of the PST repair software.

      Reply
  6. George says:
    May 26, 2017 at 6:21 am

    Is it possible to recover emails from encrypted PST file? If yes, then how can I verify this feature without purchasing the software?

    Reply
    1. Eric Simson says:
      May 29, 2017 at 9:14 am

      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).

      Reply
  7. Patricia Cole says:
    March 7, 2017 at 7:04 am

    After getting bad response from ScanPST.exe, I am planning to test Stellar PST Repair. I hope, it will fulfil our need.

    Reply
  8. Eric Simson says:
    December 26, 2016 at 7:04 am

    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.

    Reply

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