Did the .pst file shut down incorrectly?

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Categorized Under - Outlook News

Sometimes when you start Outlook you receive these error messages:

  • Outlook cannot open the data file filename until it has been checked for problems
  • Microsoft Office Outlook’ exited without properly closing your Outlook data file ‘drive:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost’.‘Microsoft Office Outlook’ must be restarted.
  • The data file< filename> was not closed properly’. This file is being checked for problems

    • Reason behind occurrence of these error messages is improper shutdown of the PST file. You may face this issue till the time Microsoft completes the reconciliation process.

    An incorrectly shut down .ost file or .pst file may occur for one of the following reasons:

  • Antivirus scanning of the file
  • Forced Microsoft Windows shutdown before the Outlook.exe process shuts down completely
  • Outlook add-ins

    • If you see this issue frequently, and you have to exit Outlook shortly before you shutdown your computer, it will be better to shut down Windows while Outlook is still running. We recommend that you to do this instead of exiting Outlook and then shutting down Windows shortly after that.

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